Incarceration is one of the criminal punishments

Punishment

Punishment is the authoritative imposition of something negative or unpleasant on a person or animal in response to behavior deemed wrong by an individual or group....

 in Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 that is provided in the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

Assignment of punishment

Incarceration is provided by the Criminal Code of Ukraine for the most of crime

Crime

Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction...

s both as single punishment and as alternate punishment. This punishment in general can be assigned for all categories of people.

Incarceration can be provided for a period between 1 and 15 years. If there are two or more sentences

Sentence (law)

In law, a sentence forms the final explicit act of a judge-ruled process, and also the symbolic principal act connected to his function. The sentence can generally involve a decree of imprisonment, a fine and/or other punishments against a defendant convicted of a crime...

, this period can be increased up to 25 years. Depending on maximum period of incarceration crimes can be classified: small crimes (maximum 2 years), medium crimes (up to 5 years), grave crime (maximum 10 years) and extra grave crime (up to 15 years of life imprisonment

Life imprisonment

Life imprisonment is a sentence of imprisonment for a serious crime under which the convicted person is to remain in jail for the rest of his or her life...

). There are also reduced terms of incarceration for minors.

Service rules

There are three types of colonies: of minimum security level, medium security level and maximum security level. Minors serve sentence in educative colonies . In these colonies areas of quarantine, diagnostics and distribution, resocialization and intensified supervision are organised. They differ on the conditions of living. Depending on behaviour of convicted person he can be moved from one type of colony to another.