Two penitentiaries will be eliminated in Belarus, based on them will be established LTP. The decision is contained in the decree of the President of Belarus № 242 "On improvement of activity of the penitentiary system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs", signed on May 28, according to the presidential press service.

"The document stipulates the liquidation, reorganization and the establishment of several institutions of the penitentiary system and medical labor dispensaries (LTP)," - said the press service. According to her, according to the decree, "liquidated two penitentiaries in Mogilev and Novopolotsk". "This is due to the reduced number of persons serving sentences in penal colonies", - the press-service. "On the basis of penal colonies, which are being closed, and the branch number 4 LTPs in Vitebsk will create three LTP. Reorganization also provided 35 correctional facilities open by merging 21 agencies to 14 more promising institutions" - noted there.

As emphasized in the press service, "this escalation institutions associated with reduction of the weight of the penalty of restriction of liberty with the direction in open prisons in the structure ordered by the courts of the sentencing." "In order to ensure maximum operating convicted employment accounted for the presence on the territory of dislocation institutions that become larger, large industrial facilities, and other organizations that have the potential for their employment" - continued there.

The press service also said that "due to optimization of the penal system decree modified accordingly and additions to the list of state organizations subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (its department), approved by the decree of December 4, 2007 №611 "On some issues Ministry of Interior and member organizations of the system of internal affairs".

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