The Kyrgyz authorities intend to liquidate the colony settlement, according to AKI. At a meeting of the Board to ensure the safety of the Government of the Republic, it was noted that the prisons of this kind are ineffective: there runs about every other prisoner.
As of 2010, in Kyrgyzstan there were 15 colonies-settlements. The State Penitentiary Service, as reported by 24.kg, has already raised the issue of reducing their number. In GSIN noted that during the Soviet era in the country operated a total of five such institutions.
Currently in open prisons, according to official statistics, shall contain 2348 people. However, according to prosecutors, announced at the meeting of the Board, in fact, more than half of them (1289 people) are currently being sought.
Criticism of these institutions supported by the Prime Minister Atambaev. According to him, there is a common practice, according to which a person is under formal supervision, and really is in the village only once a month to give there the next administration a bribe for his record is not free.
According to the GSIN Sheishenbek Baizakov, the rejection of a penal colony founded in the strategy development department for 2011-2015.
It was reported that among those who once escaped from a penal colony settlements, and was Kamchibek Kolbay – one of the most influential in Kyrgyzstan, mafia bosses. Some time later, after escaping the search of authority was suspended. The siloviki referred to in this amnesty, held in conjunction with the adoption of a new constitution. Later, in February 2011, was re-Kolbay wanted. This was done in a campaign to strengthen the fight against crime.