The Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine called the pre-trial detention center “the first outpost” of the state
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine allocated 20 million hryvnia for the creation of a “Unified Register of Convicts and Persons Taken into Custody.” The holder of the database will be the Ministry of Justice. Of the allocated amount, 7 million will be spent on server and network equipment, 12,5 million UAH will cost software and 500 thousand hryvnia will be spent on an information security system.
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Deputy Minister of Justice Denis Chernyshov spoke about this in an interview with the Kyiv agency UNN.
“The system they talk about as a “state within a state” has been reforming for several years now. A year since the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine was liquidated, after which control over the system of serving sentences passed to the Ministry of Justice. From time to time, the prison issue returns to the agenda, but the murder of an employee of the Odessa pre-trial detention center by a prisoner about a month ago attracted renewed attention to the work of the department,” the publication says.
– What kind of register of convicts will this be? How will it work, who will have access? Tell us in detail about this database.
– This is the creation of a register, which currently does not exist. We create it from scratch. This, without exaggeration, is a revolutionary step and a revolutionary event for the entire system. We now have this register on paper - by colony. For example, the temporary detention center (temporary detention center - ed.) has an electronic register, but we do not. We can’t even connect and keep normal statistics: which, say, of our “clients” was released and committed a new crime, who underwent resocialization, how we worked, and generally evaluate our work. In addition, this will also reduce local corruption; the register will allow for more accurate accounting at the local level. In general, this will be part of a large information system, of which the prisoner is a part. There will be his personal file: an article, what documents he has, his medical record, what illness he had, what treatment he received, what pills he took. Next is the work: what is his profession or, perhaps, what profession did he receive from us. We have about 60 vocational schools located in our institutions. Will he be able to use this profession when he is released, or will we recommend another one to him? How long he has worked - his report card, his enrollment. And we will have all this centralized. That is, I can see everything from here, and now it will not be written in a notebook in pencil, but in an electronic database, and it will remain there forever.
It is clear that when I tell you about the pre-trial detention center, this is our first outpost,” the official concluded pathetically.
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