MOSCOW. Dec 10 (Interfax) - Terrorists and murderers will not be moved from Siberian prisons to regions close to their homes, Alexander Reimer said, head of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service.
"There is a category of criminals who will be categorically sent to northern regions and Siberia. These are terrorists, gangsters and persons involved with illegal armed groups," Reimer said at a meeting with Russian regional ombudsmen in Moscow on Friday.
"I would like to tell the ombudsmen from the North Caucasus republics: do not waste paper. We will not return them to the North Caucasus, they will serve their sentences where we send them," he said.
Letters from relatives, regional ombudsmen and local MPs, asking for the transfer of any particular convict to a prison close to his home, are received in large numbers on a daily basis, Reimer said.