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More than 3.5 million soms allocated for maintenance of 100 convicts

More than 3.5 million soms are allocated from the national budget to institutions of the State Penitentiary Service for the maintenance of 100 convicts. Director of the National Center for Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Bakyt Rysbekov said at a meeting of Parliament, citing judicial statistics.

According to him, 100 soms per day are allocated for one convict.

«Last year, 9,417 people were kept in temporary detention centers of internal affairs at different times, and 1,556 — in remand centers of the State Penitentiary Service. In 2023, about 95 percent of the accused were taken into custody by court rulings,» Bakyt Rysbekov said.

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