The opening of a new SIZO building took place in Kazan
A new detention facility was opened in Kazan. The facility was visited by Rustam Minnikhanov, Konstantin Chuichenko, the Minister of Justice of Russia, Arkady Gostev, the Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Igor Komarov, the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Volga Federal District, and Marat Aizatullin, the Head of the Ministry of Construction of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Construction of the new detention center building began in 2022. The facility is designed for a thousand people. The building area was almost 22 thousand square meters.
Rustam Minnikhanov noted that the detention center was built as soon as possible using modern construction materials and new technologies in the protection and deployment of a special contingent.
The pre-trial detention facility includes an administrative building, 6 high-security buildings, including a separate one for housing suspects and accused women and minors, a pre-trial detention unit, a long-term and short-term visits building, a transit and transit center building, a medical unit with an outpatient clinic, a laundry room, a canteen for prison staff, a warehouse building, a garage with a repair area and a sink. The new pre-trial detention center fully meets the modern requirements for the detention of suspects and accused.
The medical unit is equipped with comfortable hospital rooms and modern equipment, including for the disabled and other categories of people with limited mobility. It includes an outpatient clinic, a hospital, a medical isolation unit, and recreational yards at the hospital.
The pre-trial detention facility has facilities for long-term visits by convicts of the household maintenance unit with their relatives, and booths for telephone conversations during short-term visits of suspects, accused and convicted persons.
A special feature of the new institution is that all high–security buildings are interconnected by transitional galleries, which eliminates the need to go outside.