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Time in Yerevan: 11:07,   29 March 2024

The cost of life imprisonment - $24 a day for inmate

The cost of life imprisonment - $24 a day for inmate

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 1, ARMENPRESS. As of January 2019, there are 91 convicted criminals serving life sentences in Armenia.

Colonel Manuk Mikayelyan, First Deputy Director of the Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Justice told ARMENPRESS that the government is spending 11601 drams (around 24 dollars) a day on inmates serving the life sentence.

Death penalty in Armenia was abolished in 2003 at the order of then-President Robert Kocharyan. At the time when the death penalty was abolished, there were 41 convicts on death row, and their sentences were changed to life in prison.

Since then, how many inmates serving the life sentence have been released, i.e. pardoned?

Since 2003 six convicts sentenced to life in prison have been released. 2 of them due to serious illness obstructing further incarceration, 1 was paroled, and three had their sentenced overruled by the Court of Cassation and a renewed investigation led to their release.

Up to the point when the death penalty was substituted with life imprisonment, how many inmates had been executed in Armenia?

The Correctional Service of the Ministry of Justice does not possess information about implemented death penalties in Armenia.

How much money is spent daily or yearly for ensuring necessary conditions of convicts serving the life imprisonment?

11601 drams daily is allocated for keeping inmates sentenced to life in prison at Armenian correctional facilities.

By Lilit Demuryan

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan








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