Kyiv’s Lukyanivsky detention center, also known as “Grandpa Lukyan,” has been located in capital’s central area since 1860s. The prison outlasted the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and has been handed down to independent Ukraine.
It has now become a symbol of the country’s unreformed, repressive penal system.
The Kyiv Post visited it on Aug. 1 and spoke there with the prison’s staff and Denys Chernyshov, a deputy minister of justice, who is in charge of the ongoing prison reform.
