Federal Penitentiary Service

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Federal Penitentiary Service

Emblem of the Federal Penitentiary Service
Flag of the Federal Penitentiary Service
Agency overview
Formed	2004; 20 years ago (2004)
Superseding agency	GUIN
Jurisdiction	Russia
Headquarters	Zhitnaya Street 14 Yakimanka District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow
Employees	224,042
Annual budget	251.7 Billion Rubles (2024)
Agency executive	Arkadiy Gostev, Director
Parent agency	Ministry of Justice
Website	fsin.gov.ru

The Federal Penitentiary Service^[a] (FSIN, Russian: Федеральная служба исполнения наказаний (ФСИН), Federalnaya Sluzhba Ispolneniya Nakazaniy) is a federal agency of the Ministry of Justice of Russia responsible for correctional services.

The FSIN is the federal authority for the detention of suspected and convicted persons, the security and maintenance of prisons in Russia, the transport of prisoners, and rehabilitation programs. As of March 2022, it operates 872 insitutions (204 pre-trial SIZO institutions, 642 corrective colonies, 8 prisons, 18 juvenile colonies), with pre-trial detention facilities housing adult and juvenile offenders of various security levels, with the majority of penal facilities being corrective labor colonies. Its head office is located at Zhitnaya Street 14 in Yakimanka District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow.

The FSIN was established in 2004 as a new federal correctional service agency for the Ministry of Justice to replace the Soviet-era Main Administration for the Execution of Punishments (Главное управление исполнения наказаний, GUIN), formerly of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and received its current name in 2006. It claims succession from the Main Prisons Directorate of the Russian Empire founded in 1879, and directly succeeds the correctional services of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union including the Gulag agency.
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