Inmates barricade themselves inside Bryansk prison demanding a meeting with prosecutors - source
BRYANSK. March 28 (Interfax) - Up to 100 people serving their sentences at Penitentiary No. 6 in the town of Klintsy, Bryansk region, where earlier 300 inmates cut their wrists, have demanded a meeting with officials of the local branch of Russia's Federal Penitentiary Institutions Service (FSIN) and prosecutors.
"The acting head of the Russian FSIN branch for the Bryansk region, Konstantin Knis, his deputies and Prosecutor's Office representatives in charge of overseeing the observance of laws at correctional institutions of the Bryansk region arrived at Penitentiary No. 6 immediately," a spokesman for the service's regional branch said.
Knis and the Bryansk region prosecutor who oversees the observance of laws at local correctional institutions, Vasily Lyamtsev, are currently receiving personal complaints from the inmates.
The situation at the penitentiary remains stable and is being controlled by its administration, he said.
A source in law enforcement agencies told Interfax that several buses carrying OMON riot police officers had been sent from Bryansk to Klintsy after inmates of Penitentiary No. 6 had barricaded themselves inside its premises demanding a meeting with prosecutors.
A spokesman for the region's law enforcement agencies said earlier that 29 inmates of Penitentiary No. 6 had cut their wrists on Tuesday morning.
The local branch of the Federal Penitentiary Institutions Service, for its part, issued an official report, in which it put the number of such persons at 23 and explained the conflict by "personal dislike between two inmates from different units."
