The government wanted to attract prisoners to Russian construction sites, said the Deputy Prime Minister Marat Husnullin, who quotes Interfax.
“I believe that this practice has the right to exist, now we work this topic, and for some facilities it is a possible option,” the deputy head of the government.
He also reminded the existence of such practice in the USSR, when prisoners convicted in the construction industry were involved in the construction industry and having profile skills.
Earlier with such a proposal, the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Alexander Kalashnikov, who talked about the possibility of replacing part of labor migrants to prisoners.
According to the Ministry of Construction, in early March, the lack of 1.2 million workers was noted on Russian construction sites.