Penza, 15 June 2018. PenzaNews. Three young citizens of Ukraine who escaped from penal colony No. 12 in the village of Sosnovka of the Bessonovsky area of the Penza region were detained. This was reported by the press service of the regional department of the Federal Service for Execution of Punishment.

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"On June 15 in the forest of the Gorodishchensky area of the Penza region, workers of the Federal Service for Execution of Punishment in close cooperation with the staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation detained convicted twin brothers who had escaped from penal colony No. 12 in the evening on June 9," the department explained.

The press service added that the third man had been detained on June 12 in the forest of the Gorodishchensky area.

As it was reported before, on June 9 at about 21.00 the management of the colony discovered the escape of three convicts.

Three Ukrainian citizens born in the Lugansk region in 1994 and 1995 escaped from the detention facility, where they had served a punishment for committing thefts. Two of them are twin brothers.