Incarceration is one of the criminal punishments in Ukraine that is provided in the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
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Incarceration is provided by the Criminal Code of Ukraine for the most of crimes both as single punishment and as alternate punishment. This punishment in general can be assigned for all categories of people.[1]
Incarceration can be provided for a period between 1 and 15 years.[1] If there are two or more sentences, this period can be increased up to 25 years. Depending on maximum period of incarceration crimes can be classified: small crimes (maximum 2 years), medium crimes (up to 5 years), grave crime (maximum 10 years) and extra grave crime (up to 15 years of life imprisonment).[2] There are also reduced terms of incarceration for minors.[3]
There are three types of colonies: of minimum security level, medium security level and maximum security level. Minors serve sentence in educative colonies (Ukrainian: виховна колонія). In these colonies areas of quarantine, diagnostics and distribution, resocialization and intensified supervision are organised. They differ on the conditions of living. Depending on behaviour of convicted person he can be moved from one type of colony to another.[4]