When a country faces a shortage of IT workers, what should the government do? Of course, it is to find skilled prisoners, which is the way Russia was forced to take, because many computer experts left the country after the invasion of Ukraine Krebson Security reported that the Russian federal prison administration announced last month that it plans to use imprisoned IT experts sentenced to criminal detention as remote workers for domestic commercial companies. This plan was proposed by Russian businessmen trying to perform it duties
Russian state media reported that nearly 95000 IT job vacancies in Russia have not been met since March 21. Although this figure is 25% lower than that of last month, the reduction is only due to the delay of the project after the budget review. On the one hand, Western sanctions undoubtedly played a role.
The Russian Association for electronic communications (RAEC) estimates that 70000 to 100000 IT experts will leave Russia for overseas, of which the United States, Germany, Georgia, Cyprus and Canada are the most attractive places for them.
The BBC says Russia's prison system currently has nearly 875000 prisoners. This means that there are about 615 prisoners per 100000 citizens, second only to 737 prisoners per 100000 citizens in the United States, which is the second highest in the world. However, it is unknown how many Russian prisoners have it knowledge.
According to RBC, the prison administration of the Russian Federation organizes criminal detention sentences in 117 correctional centers in 76 regions of Russia. The average salary of sentenced persons is about 20000 rubles per month, or about 281 US dollars.