Ever more people are convicted for grave crimes. Thus, more than 107,000 present-day prison inmates are premeditated murderers. Roughly 83,000 were convicted for premeditated assaults and batteries, and more than 150,000 for burglaries and hold-ups, armed or unarmed.
A half of the total have previous records. 30 per cent of the inmates are below 25 years of age.
The total number of Russian convicts was 823,376, as of April 1. 668,000 of these are serving their term in prison camps, 139,000 in pre-trial detention houses, 16,000 in approved schools, and 3,500 in prisons. 306 inmates were convicted for fighting in paramilitary gangs-in particular, every seventh of Chechen inmates. The total number of Chechen convicts exceeds two thousand.
Terrorists have the same conditions as other convicts. Chechnya has not fully reinstated its penitentiary network yet, and its convicted residents are serving their terms in neighbouring areas within federal district South, to which Chechnya administratively belongs.
