The Department of Supervising Enforcement of Sentences and Other Compulsory Measures of the RA General Prosecutor’s Office has investigated the prosecutorial supervision over the preliminary investigation and investigation of the crimes committed in 2008-2009 in the penitentiaries of the RA Ministry of Justice, psychiatric facilities and the orphanages and the causes of criminality. The investigation revealed that in 2008 116 crimes by 135 persons, including a case of murder committed with particular cruelty, 2 breaches from penitentiaries, 4 attempts of breach, 1 infliction of damage to health, 73 cases of illegal turnover of narcotic drugs or psychotropic materials (43 with the purpose of sale and 30 without the purpose of sale), 10 cases of causing somebody to commit a suicide, 4 abuses of official authorities, 3 attempts to hinder the activities of the institutions executing punishment, 2 robberies, 2 cases of exceeding official authorities, 2 cases of hooliganism, 2 cases of forgery and use of false documents as well as a case of inflicting mild damage to health, battery, presenting false information to the agencies of civil status acts registration, violent sexual actions, fraud, illegal carrying of cold weapon, car crash, official negligence, using violence against an official and avoiding the punishment were committed in the penitentiaries of the RA Ministry of Justice, psychiatric facilities and the orphanages. The 116 cases formed the 1,25 % of the 9273 crimes committed in the Republic of Armenia in 2008. Out of 116 crimes 110 crimes were committed in the subdivisions of the penitentiaries of the RA Ministry of Justice in 2008, 4 in the orphanages and 2 in psychiatric facilities. The analyses of the situation of criminality in the penitentiaries of the RA Ministry of Justice during 2009 state that the most disturbing and unfavorable situation is in the “Nubarashen” penitentiary as 36 crimes were committed in this penitentiary which forms 32,7% or 1/3 of the 110 crimes committed in all the penitentiaries. In 2009 185 crimes by 235 persons, including 140 cases of illegal turnover of narcotic drugs or psychotropic materials (102 with the purpose of sale and 38 without the purpose of sale), 7 cases of official negligence, 6 of causing somebody to commit a suicide, 5 of fraud, 4 of abuse of official authorities, 4 of inflicting mild damage to health, 3 of battery, 3 of breach, 2 cases of not proper implementation of liabilities by the medical personnel, as well as a case of inflicting severe damage to health which cased death, inflicting mild damage to health, illegal admission to the psychiatric hospital, violent sexual actions, hooliganism, exceeding of official authorities, using violence against an official and avoiding the punishment were committed in the penitentiaries of the RA Ministry of Justice, psychiatric facilities and the orphanages. The 185 cases formed the 1,2 % of the 14339 crimes committed in the Republic of Armenia in 2009. 117 crimes were committed in the subdivisions of the penitentiaries of the RA Ministry of Justice in 2008, 4 in the orphanages and 4 in psychiatric facilities. In particular, a case of official negligence was committed in each of Boarding School 1, SNCO in Yerevan, in “Zatik” and “Mari Izmiryan” orphanages and a case of violent sexual actions in the Child Support Center. Thus, the analyses reveal that the number of committed crimes increased compared to the same period of the previous year as a result of which the structure and process of criminality in the penitentiaries was substantially changed. In particular 185 cases compared to the 116 cases of the previous year were committed in the penitentiaries of the RA Ministry of Justice, psychiatric facilities and the orphanages thus the cases increased by 69 or 59,4%. The percentage of the crimes committed in the penitentiaries also increased in 2009 because of the unprecedented increase of the committed crimes as if in 2008 110 cases of out 116 or 94,8% were committed in the penitentiaries then in 2009 177 cases out of 185 or 95,6% were committed. The analyses show that in 2009 the increase of committed crimes was on behalf of the general crimes and illegal turnover of narcotic drugs. The comparative analyses of the crimes committed in 2008-2009 show that in 2009 the number of illegal turnover of narcotic drugs increased by 59 (43-102), keeping narcotic drugs by 8 (30-38), official negligence by 6 (1-7), fraud by 1 (4-5), inflicting mild damage to health by 2 (1-3), battery by 2 (1-3), not proper implementation of liabilities by the medical personnel by 2 (0-2), inflicting severe damage to health which caused death by 1 (0-1). However, the number of committing suicide decreased by 4 (10-6), robbery by 2 (2-0), breach and attempt of breach (6-3), hooliganism by 1 (2-1), exceeding of official authorities by 1 (2-1), forgery and used of false documents by 1 (1-0), carrying cold weapon by 1 (1-0) and willful murder by 1 (1-0). In the same period of time the number of the abused of official authorities (4-4), hindering the actions of the penitentiaries (3-3), inflicting medium gravity damage (1-1), violent sexual actions (1-1), inflicting violence against the official (1-1) and the avoiding the punishment (1-1) stayed the same. 140 cases of illegal turnover of narcotic drugs were committed in 9 penitentiaries in 2009 whereas 73 cases were committed in 8 penitentiaries in 2008. Thus the number increased by 67 or 91,7%. The cases of sale increased by 59 (43-102) or about 1,4 times and the cases of keeping them by 8 (30-38) or 26,6%. It is remarkable that 140 cases of the illegal turnover of narcotic drugs in the penitentiaries of the RA Ministry of Justice form the 11,3% of the 1229 cases of the same nature committed in the Republic of Armenia in the same period of time. Like in 2008, the situation is disturbing and unfavorable in the “Nubarashen” penitentiary where 63 crimes were committed (46 sale and 17 keeping), which formed the 45% of the 140 crimes committed in the same period. The analysis of the prison breach shows that the breach was connected mostly with the weak supervision of the employees, improper technical inspection of the barriers and railings, not eliminating the revealed shortcomings in time and their negligence during the service. The existence of cell phones which is prohibited by the internal rules of the penitentiary contributes to the commitment of illegal turnover of narcotic drugs in the penitentiaries as the convicts organize and conduct the bringing of narcotic drugs to the penitentiaries by their cell phones and in case of revealing the drugs they hinder the investigation in the same way by having illegal influence on the witnesses, guiding their testimonies which causes serious difficulties during the investigation. In 2008-2009 the employees of the penitentiaries revealed and seized illegally kept cell phones, in 2008 1240 phones and in 2009 twice more 2558 phones. On the one hand it is the result of the positive work but on the other hand it can’t be considered satisfactory as the administration of the penitentiaries didn’t take practical measures to find out the ways of obtaining the prohibited articles by the convicts, as well as to reveal and call to liability the persons who were to blame. The analyses of the materials of some criminal cases show that some convicts use their phones out of the territory of the penitentiaries all day long which states that their prison cells are either not searched or the search is formal. All the 5 cases of fraud committed in 2009 were done by the convicts who recharged their cell phones by fraud or stole money. The results of the survey also state that the penitentiaries as bodies of investigation conduct operative intelligence activities only in the territory of the penitentiary whereas the committed crimes should be revealed by the territorial divisions of the RA Police. The percentage of the detected crimes as a record of carried positive work doesn’t receive appropriate treatment while estimating the work of the penitentiaries whereas this matter is discussed otherwise while estimating the work of the territorial divisions of the RA Police. In the given situation the two bodies of investigation work separately and not coordinated as a result of which proper joint operative intelligence activities are not implemented and they don’t exchange the necessary information. The result is that many cases are not detected at once, urgent investigation and operative intelligence measures and procedural activities such as search, confiscation, etc. are not conducted, and the persons who committed the crimes remain undetected or manage to avoid criminal liability by deflecting the investigation. The above-mentioned facts mostly refer to the preliminary investigation of the cases on the illegal turnover of narcotic drugs. During the study it was also stated that a common order of the registration, discussion and counting of the legal offences is not stated in the penitentiaries of the RA Ministry of Justice as the office and record books of the penitentiaries are not kept in the same way and the registration of legal offences is carried out with gaps. In many cases the offences are registered in different books or materials are prepared without registering them in any book.