In the Ministry of Justice, the period was called to which all Russian prisoners who have the right to attract correctional labor. According to the calculations of the department, this will happen by 2030, report “Izvestia”.
In the country, indicates the newspaper, in the coming years the number of places for forced work of convicts will increase. It is, among other things, about large construction and cleaning of the ecological zone in the Arctic. Now about 188 thousand people have the right to replace the conclusion on forced work. “We are very interested in large investment projects, where the number of people who serve the punishment in the form of correctional work will be a thousand and more people,” said Konstantin Chuchenko, head of the Ministry of Justice of Russia.
In the “Support of Russia” are confident that the work of prisoners will be in demand only in large business, but not in small or average. “In the Soviet years of large buildings, where the work of prisoners was used, there was a lot. But they were all state. How it will be organized now, to say difficult,” said the head of the organization Alexander Kalinin.
previously became known that to work on the Baikal-Amur highway (BAM), prisoners had already begun. By June, the construction of the road can send about 600 convicts. They will be determined by specialty that do not require high qualifications: for example, handymen, concreteers or reinforcers.
The involvement of Russian prisoners to work on large projects in the country began to speak in April. Especially relevant initiative has become against the background of the deficit of labor migrants due to restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic.
In late May, the head of the FSIN Alexander Kalashnikov proposed to use the work of prisoners instead of migrants. He clarified that working convicts would live in a hostel or removable accommodation and receive a decent salary. In the Ministry of Justice, the idea of replacing labor migrants convicts considered the right