KAZAN. May 16 (Interfax) - The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) should expand its production facilities given that 60% of convicts are jobless, the Russian human rights commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova said.
"According to the information of Russia's FSIN, nearly 60% of convicts were not employed for various reasons," Moskalkova told a congress of regional commissioners in Kazan on Thursday.
Some 170,260 inmates were employed and 316,373 were unemployed last year, she said. The average monthly salary is just over 5,000 rubles, Moskalkova said, suggesting that the FSIN production base be expanded and more convicts be engaged in the labor process.