Ministry of Justice will reduce the penalty for minor crimes for pregnant women and women with children
The Ministry of Justice of Russia is working on an initiative that is provided for by the National Action Strategy for Women.
She implies mitigation of punishment for offenders of pregnant women and young mothers. It is emphasized that mitigation of punishment will affect only those who have committed minor crimes.
To such crimes, the law refers to all offenses for which punishment is prescribed. up to three years in prison.
Simply put, these are thefts, hooliganism, fraud on a small scale, some cases of drug trafficking, violations of traffic rules, which have consequences.
A pregnant woman or a mother with a child who has not yet turned 14 is planned for such acts. free from prison.
The Ministry of Justice intends to replace them with a suspended sentence.
The mitigation of punishment is supported by the Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova.
Several times insisted on this and the members of the Government of Russia. According to experts in the field of jurisprudence, the rights of imprisoned mothers and their young children regularly violated.
Every year Russia is judged and sent to jail around one and a half thousand pregnant women.
When female colonies created 13 children's homesin which children of convicts are brought up after childbirth. On January 1, 2018 such children in the colonies numbered about 550 people.