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Kachanivska penal colony (Ukrainian: Качанівська жіноча колонія №54, translated: "Kachanivska female colony number 54"), is a prison of minimal level security with general conditions for detention of women located in the East-Ukrainian city of Kharkiv for the detention of women who were sentenced for the first time because of a negligence or crimes of low or moderate severity. The inmates live in barracks designed for 8 to 12 women.
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Map of Kachanivska penal colony, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine
Prisoners here have the right to meet with close relatives every three days once every three months; the colony has nine rooms for long visits where the visitor can stay for money.
History
In 1927 the former estate of the Russian landowner Kachanov was transformed into an affiliation of the Kharkiv "house of forced labor" (BUPR). In the building were installed a shoe repair shop and a forge for the manufacture of agricultural tools. In 1941 when Kharkiv was occupied by Nazi Germany BUPR was evacuated to the east. After the liberation of the city the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukrainian SSR ordered in October 1943 to organized an industrial colony. The first party of convicts was accepted in February 1944. In 1948 the colony was reorganized into a juvenile colony.
In 1957 it became a "female labor colony".