Olga Medvedeva said that her son, Samara saxophonist Andrey Shabanov, was beaten twice in Penal Colony No. 10 after complaints about detention conditions. According to her, he is serving a six-year sentence in a colony in the Samara region.

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FSIN has decided to restructure the training of cadets at its vocational colleges for work in colonies, prisons, and pretrial detention centers amid a shortage of more than 70,000 employees. The draft order of the agency was published on September 8.

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