A fire broke out in the Russian colony: Incidents: Russia: Lenta.ru
In Mordovia, a fire broke out on the territory of correctional colony No. 1. It is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Russian region.
According to the press service of the department, industrial waste and the roof of the building of the machine shop caught fire. The fire area is about one thousand square meters. The fire was extinguished at 21.33 Moscow time, no one was injured or injured.
RIA Newsreferring to the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Republic of Mordovia, they specified to RIA Novosti that the fire occurred on the territory of the colony located in the village of Sosnovka, Zubovo-Polyansky district. The roof of the warehouse building on an area of 900 square meters and lumber on an area of 300 square meters caught fire.
Earlier, a member of the Public Monitoring Commission of Moscow, Eva Merkacheva, said that social activists would check about 20 Russian colonies and isolation wards for the observance of prisoners’ rights. According to her, the check will begin with the Kirov pre-trial detention center. The next will be the isolation wards in the Republics of Mari El and Mordovia and in Saratov. Merkacheva noted that in each correctional institution, human rights defenders will check the conditions in which prisoners live and listen to their complaints.