"277 businessmen have launched their business in jails. They created 2154 work places, 57 convicts have been registered as individual entrepreneurs and they employed 325 other convicts," she said at the press-conference.
According to Kairat Zhakypbayev, head of service for surveillance over verdicts legality, the convicts make goods by hands.
"Business develops in jails in two directions. First is when businessmen propose their own ideas, through administration they apply to convicts for production of slag stones, furniture, souvenirs... They deliver equipment and teach how to use them," he said.
In the second case, a relative of a convict is registered as an individual entrepreneur and sells the goods outside the colony.
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