Part III

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VORONEZH INSTITUTE OF THE FEDERAL PENITENTIARY SERVICE OF THE RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF JUSTICE

Voronezh Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Ministry of Justice is a state higher educational and research institution. It is situated in the regional centre of Voronezh, about 500 km south to Moscow. The Institute has international contacts with research, academic institutions, law enforcement agencies and penitentiary service bodies in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Israel. The Institute carries out the project of mutual integrated activity on the alternative sanctions measures with the European Union.

In October 2001 Voronezh College of the Russian Ministry of Justice was founded. In 2007 it was reorganized into an institute to train correctional treatment specialists and employees for security units of incarceration.

There are more than 10 chairs at the institute. Some of them are the chairs of history and philosophy, russian and foreign languages, civil and labour law, state and law theory, criminal law and criminal penitentiary service, criminal procedure and criminalistics, theoretical fundamentals of radioengineering, radioelectronic devices, security systems.

We are honoured to have highly qualified staff that makes the educational process useful, attractive, interesting, creative; professionally and qualitatively developed. Among them there are many Kandidates and Doctors of sciences.

We pay special attention to research conferences which are held on the basis of our Institute.

According to the training curriculum the Institute cadets have special training courses such as range practice, tactics, drill training. They have all possibilities to prove their physical skills in gymnasia and they train to shoot in the shooting gallery.

All cadets are privets of the internal service and wear service uniforms. First and second year cadets live in the barrack which is next door to the institute building. The daily routine is very strict. It begins with reveille at 6 p.m. and ends with taps at 10 p.m. In between they have lectures, seminars, classes. As a rule they have three periods. After the third period they have dinner in the mass. Then cadets have some time for self preparation.

Every Institute graduate gets a diploma and a special rank of a lieutenant of the internal service.

Besides there is a special faculty in the Voronezh Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Ministry of Justice. Law training here is aimed on the graduating civil lawyers. The students study the principles of academic law rather than legal principles of penitentiary and correctional service practicing. Skills of interpretation and logical reasoning are developed. The students read law for five years. According to preference a student may develop his or her interest in a particular law area. A special law faculty graduate gets a diploma of a lawyer and may serve for any sphere of Russian legal system (prosecution, advocating, judging, law enforcement and penitentiary activity).