Private Investors to Help Build Juvenile Correctional Facilities in Kazakhstan
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One such facility has already been built in Almaty, Prosecutor General Berik Asylov said, Orda.kz reports.
At a meeting on ensuring the rule of law in the penal system, Asylov said that the penal system committee in Almaty, with the participation of a private investor, had managed to build an institution for juvenile offenders.
The constructed facility meets international standards. The residential premises of other correctional institutions were also repaired. We are implementing a project to build 12 production hangars on their territories. the statement says.
It also became known from the speech that the Prosecutor General’s Office plans to build even more new correctional institutions in Kazakhstan and attract private investors for this purpose.
The state will finance no more than 30% of the cost of the projects, and the rest will come from private capital, with subsequent reimbursement of costs. To reduce construction costs, it is planned to revise the standards, taking into account the use of modern building materials and new safety technologies the department added.
Berik Asylov also said that the number of registered torture cases in the penitentiary system had fallen, from 26 in 2023 to three in 2025, and that the employment rate among prisoners had increased from 50% to 70%. According to him, it costs the budget up to three million tenge a year to maintain one prisoner.
According to the amendments proposed by the Prosecutor General’s Office, they want to transfer the functions of resocialization to the akimats, and the coordination of this work to the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population.
Original author: Alexander Smolin
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