Turkmenistan: Prisons are filled with prisoners artificially
Over the past year, the number of prisoners in Turkmen prisons has dropped to 33,500. According to ACCA sources in the Department of Execution of Sentences under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Turkmenistan, prisoners in Turkmen prisons are going through the most difficult times.
Our sources explain this by the fact that in the last year the quantity and quality of food products have deteriorated sharply, and there is a complete lack of medical care in many colonies.
During the pandemic, all colonies and prisons were closed for quarantine. The lack of visits, the transfer of food and medicine from relatives has completely stopped.
About 2,000 prisoners have died in Turkmen prisons over the past year. They mostly died from tuberculosis and COVID-19. Of these, about one and a half thousand prisoners died in the prison hospital MR-B/15 located in Mary region, the rest died in other prisons and colonies of the penitentiary system of Turkmenistan.
According to ACCA sources, in order to compensate for the losses, the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs came to a simple solution to this “problem”. They just started putting more people in jail. Our sources said that over the past year, 700 more people were brought to criminal responsibility under various articles, and at the moment there are 33,500 prisoners in the country’s prisons.
