Kommersant, Novye Izvestia
suspended sentence. According to forecasts, the new measure will reduce the number of prison inmates by 100,000 in the course of the next few years.Over one-third of these convicts will be monitored with the help of electronic bracelets; others, by local police officers.
The new punishment will be applied to individuals found guilty of minor offences, who will be placed under house arrest for four to 24 months. House arrest can also be used as additional measure for those guilty of major crimes.
"Restricting freedom is a humane policy, but this innovation can well remain on paper, because the Federal Service will not be able to monitor all the offenders placed under house arrest. All of penitentiary officers are busy with those serving their sentences on probation. As for the electronic bracelets, they have been tested successfully, but mass production has not begun yet," said Valery Borshchev, member of a consultative council at the Prosecutor General"s
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