State Duma plans to attract prisoners to prepare the World Cup 2018

The Russian authorities want to use prison labor to reduce the cost of holding the World Cup in 2018, the Associated Press reported.

According to the news agency, the Russian penitentiary service supports the initiative of State Duma deputy from United Russia Alexander Hinshtein, who proposes to attract prisoners to work in enterprises outside the colonies.

MP notes that this will reduce the cost of building materials for the construction of championship facilities.

Khinshtein told the Associated Press that this would provide an opportunity to purchase construction materials at a price lower than the market price and, in addition, would allow prisoners to work, which, in his opinion, is a very positive factor.

According to Khinshtein, the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service is working with him on the development of relevant proposals. In the near future they will be submitted to the State Duma, he added.

Representatives of the Federal Penitentiary Service refused to comment on these plans for the Associated Press on Monday, however, the first deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Anatoly Rudy, told the Kommersant newspaper that his department was discussing the possibility of attracting prisoners to classes, "for which, let's say, the ordinary citizen will not undertake."