According to statistics, not all crimes are committed by professional criminals. There are frequent cases when the sick person becomes the author of such an action. Due to the fact that such an individual poses a threat to healthy people, he cannot continue to be in society. Of course, such a person can be arrested and sent to a labor camp or prison. However, this method only isolates the dangerous individual. As experts are convinced, in addition to isolation, the identity of a sick attacker is subject to specific correction. Especially for such tasks, an arrest house was created.
Acquaintance
The arrest house is a medical and correctional institution in the structure of the FSIN. According to experts, the institution must have a guarded perimeter and a militarized guard. Since the detention center is a medical institution, special medical equipment and medical personnel are provided for it.
Tasks
The house of detention isolates from the society of citizens who have committed crimes of medium and light gravity. According to experts, the conclusion in such an institution on grading the severity of punishment is more loyal than being sent to ordinary places of deprivation of liberty (MLC). Through total alienation from the familiar external world and the maximum restriction of freedoms on the individual, a peculiar shock effect is produced. As a result, in a short time there is an adjustment of his psychological appearance.
Who is the institution intended for?
Among many inhabitants, the conviction was strengthened that the detention center is a place exclusively for drug addicts, alcoholics and citizens with an open form of tuberculosis. In fact, the list of diseases is wider.
In accordance with Order No. 263 of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, one can get into the detention house with the following diseases:
- Somatic injuries and diseases that are inherited at the gene level.
- Otolaryngological, dental and ophthalmic. In other words, those citizens who have problems with their ears, nose, mouth and eyes become patients in detention centers in Russia.
- Mental abnormalities.
In addition, a person who does not have a permanent registration and a place to live may be in the arrest house. According to experts, this is not a pattern. The dubious person is determined in the institution at the discretion of the court. Putting a person in a real prison until he has committed a crime is cruel and illegal, but he cannot be left free either, since one cannot be completely sure of such an individual. You can also get into the house of arrest if the citizen avoids court hearings or if he did not fulfill the previous lenient sentence.
About living conditions
An area of 3 square meters is provided per patient. Those prisoners who committed a criminal act with particular cruelty are kept separately from all patients. In a separate building, repeat offenders are being treated. According to experts, the law does not provide for cohabitation of men and women.
And also with adults in the detention house there can be no juvenile delinquents. It is noteworthy that in separate blocks citizens with infectious diseases sit and are treated. Not only medical procedures are provided for inmates in custody houses. Their duties are charged with labor service: a criminal works out daily for 4 hours, if this is not contraindicated for health reasons. A sidelander is entitled to an hour-long walk every day.
About the terms of detention
In this institution, the convicted patient may remain until his sentence expires. On average, the period of stay in the walls of a house of detention varies from 1 to 6 months.
If, according to the established sentence, a person is serving a life sentence, then he is determined in a forced labor colony or prison only after the final cure. Before this, the individual is carefully examined by an expert medical board. In addition, the transfer to the rest of the convicts is possible if the disease is in a latent stage and no longer poses a threat to both the carrier itself and the rest of the prisoners.
For pregnant women, as well as women with babies, there are exceptions. The administration of the house of arrest begins to prepare documents on transfer to the detention center after the child reaches 3 years of age. Well, if by this time the term of imprisonment of the offender expires. Then she is released from the arrest house.
Type of punishment
Compared to administrative and house arrest, imprisonment in a special medical institution is a more severe punishment. In addition to the therapeutic content, there is another goal here, namely to isolate the prisoner. Therefore, the following restrictions await the inmate:
- Family dating is prohibited.
- Limited transmission from the will. The only exceptions are basic necessities.
- A person undergoing treatment is prohibited from using the telephone. Judging by the reviews, the administration allows the patient to call if he behaves well.
About medical correctional houses in Russia
Those who are interested in how many arrest houses are on the territory of the Russian Federation can be advised to look at the Order of the Ministry of Justice No. 263, which has been in force since 2006. The document contains a complete list of similar institutions by region. According to experts, a large number of arrest houses in the central part of the country, in Siberia and the Urals. In the Far East region, there are fewer medical correctional houses.
In St. Petersburg from 1881 to 1891, more than 62 thousand people were held in one of these institutions with 160 places. Brawlers got here (of the two detained hooligans, one paid a fine, and the second was determined to be in a detention house) and people without a fixed place of residence and occupation.