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Kolpino Prison

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Background

Federal State Institution Pre-trial Detention Facility No. 1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the City of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast (Russian: Федеральное казённое учреждение Следственный изолятор № 1 Управления Федеральной службы исполнения наказаний по г. Санкт-Петербургу и Ленинградской области), unofficially known as Kresty-2 (Russian: Кресты-2) is a pretrial detention facility in Kolpino, Saint Petersburg. It was opened on December 22, 2017, and replaces the old Kresty Prison, from which it inherited its configuration, as well as its official and unofficial names.

Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.

Capacity

Current population

Occupancy

Year opened

2017

Operational

Facility profile

Operator

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

2017

Region

Security level

Death-row facility

No

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