In theRussian Federation,law enforcement is the responsibility of a variety of different agencies. TheRussian police (formerly themilitsiya) are the primary law enforcement agency, with theInvestigative Committee of Russia as the main investigative agency, and theFederal Security Service (FSB) as the main domestic security agency.
Prisons in Russia are administered by theFederal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) and can be categorized under four types of facilities: pre-trial institutions; educative or juvenile labor colonies; corrective labor colonies; and prisons.[2]
Thecorrective colony (Russian:Исправительно-трудовая колония, ИТК,ispravitelno-trudovaya koloniya,ITK) is the most common, with 760 institutions in 2004 across the manyadministrative divisions of Russia.[2] There were also eight prisons, 62 juvenile facilities, and 192 pre-trial facilities in 2004.[3]