The Sverdlovsk Union of Small and Medium Businesses has accepted regional correctional colonies into its ranks. The agreement on strengthening cooperation was signed by the president of the Union Anatoly Filippenkov and the head of the GUFSIN of the Middle Urals Alexander Fedorov, reports JustMedia. en.

As part of the signing of the agreement, representatives of the GUFSIN management told entrepreneurs about the opportunities that they open to them in the case of cooperation with prisoners. So, already now dozens of firms cooperate with the colonies, ordering from prisoners the goods of metalworking, woodworking production, furniture, building materials and clothing products.

Only in 2017 the prisoners fulfilled orders for 330 million rubles. For five months in 2018, the colony received more than 250 orders for a total of more than 100 million rubles. In 2017, IK-13 jointly with the investor launched the production of office furniture.

Filippenkov proposed to more actively implement joint projects in the humanitarian and charitable spheres - to patronize the Children's Home at IK-6 in Nizhny Tagil, the Kirovgrad educational colony and other institutions, the press service of the GUFSIN.