"For obvious reasons, the colonies have all been abandoned": Ulan-Ude postpones construction of a super-colony for three thousand people.
"This project was abandoned because funding was not provided. But overall, for obvious reasons, the colonies are now completely deserted. Construction activity has declined." — the head of Buryatia reported Alexey Tsydenov.
According to him, the republic needed a super-colony because the existing pre-trial detention centers and colonies require renovation.
Previously "NeMoscow" toldthat a prison "city within a city" was going to be built in the microdistrict Energetic в Ulan-Ude. It was supposed to house a pretrial detention center and prison buildings, a medical unit, laundries, dining halls, food service areas, production facilities, a fire department, garages, etc. The result would have been one of the largest prisons in Russia.
However, residents of Energetik have launched a fight against this proximity. They have created a petition demanding the cancellation of plans to build a 3000-person "multi-colony" within the city limits. "We don't have a landfill in Buryatia where we can bring criminals from all over Russia to a 'mega-colony'... Let them keep their own criminals! We have enough of our own convict 'legacy' here, with its crappy criminal tendencies in its genes!" — local residents wrote.