Fifteen hundred people are already working on the capital’s construction sites.
An experiment on the participation of prisoners in the construction of large facilities has been launched in Moscow and the Moscow Region.
Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, who spoke about the experiment, said that it was quite successful.
In an interview with RBC, Khusnullin said that fifteen hundred people were sent to the construction sites. In the future, the prisoners may be involved in the construction of the Eastern polygon of the Russian Railways.
It is known that prisoners from Russian colonies are attracted to work on construction sites on a voluntary basis.
“I believe that it will be a plus for them that they will be in conditions not of imprisonment, but of work,” Khusnullin said.
The Deputy Prime Minister confirmed that the prisoners will be paid salaries.
Earlier, the Federal Penitentiary Service counted the number of convicts who are allowed to serve their sentences in forced labor. This is 188 thousand people (in total, almost half a million people were convicted in Russia).
The prisoners were planned to be sent to facilities that lost their labor force due to the lack of migrants in the conditions of the pandemic.
As Topnews wrote earlier, the Federal Penitentiary Service had to justify the high salaries of Russian prisoners.
According to the statistics of the department, in the Belgorod region there are convicts who receive 224 thousand rubles a month.