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2 April 2026, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in Ukrayinskyy and Others v. Ukraine — 42 applicants, correctional colony
There is a category of legal issues that are both well-known and systematically ignored. Compensation for non-pecuniary damage caused by unlawful criminal prosecution
A video report on the ‘Black Dolphin’ penal colony (IK-6, Sol-Iletsk, Orenburg Oblast), filmed with the explicit permission of the prison administration, is
On 10 April 2026, the Odesa District Administrative Court opened proceedings in Case No. 420/9112/26. The claimant is Dmytro Yagunov, a lawyer, human
The Ukrainian probation service emerged from reformist rhetoric and developed in the shadow of bureaucratic self-perpetuation. The 2015 Law ‘On Probation’ was presented
I recently carried out what might seem like a routine administrative procedure — I sent an information request to the Department for the
From Monday, most offenders in England and Wales who would have faced up to a year in jail are likely to receive a
But by far the most extensive and important work that has been done on the effect of community-based treatments has been done in
The reform of Ukraine’s prison system, marked by a shift from a “punitive model” to “rehabilitation,” began as an ambitious project to humanise
