347 per 100,000 people in July 2011. Approximately one-sixth of the prisoners are on are remand, and 87,581 with non-custodial sentences. In February 2000, Ukraine abolished the death penalty, which had been abandoned since March 1997. In March 2014, t he Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine lost control of four prisons, when Russia occupied and annexed Crimea. The functioning of 29 prisons in the militant-controlled areas of Donbas deteriorated after the 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine, with a lack of food and water affecting 16,200 inmates. In October 2014, insurgents agreed on a safe route for the evacuation of women from a destroyed prison in the Lugansk region. On 18 May 2016, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine abolished the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine, and took over the responsibility Ukraine's prisons. Prison Ministry of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church The penitentiary pastoral ministry of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) is the Catholic Prison Ministry in Ukraine, which was founded on international principles. it was praised by the 12th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. On June 8, 2015, the president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, signed a law regarding chaplaincy in prisons #419-VIII On Amendments to Several Legislative Acts of Ukraine (regarding activity of chaplains in the bodies and institutions belonging to the jurisdiction of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine). Prison chaplaincy is increasing, following a long period of atheism. Prison pastoral care has been central to the UGCC throughout its history. Volodymyr Liovochkin, Ivan Shtanko and Vasyliy Koschinets, former directors of the State Penal Department of Ukraine, first allowed all prisons to have a pastor. The workers of the Social, Educational and Psychological Service of the Prison System of Ukraine played a major role in the establishment of prison chaplains. Prison Pastoral of the UGCC, though it is still very young, is taking successive steps to integrity. It was restored in 1990 after the Church, formerly forbidden, emerged from the underground. Pastoral care has grown steadily from several prison facilities in the Western Part of Ukraine to more than 40 penal institutions in every region of the country. The most active prison chaplains are the Redemptorist Fathers. Since 2001 the UGCC is the co-founder of the Ukrainian Interdenominational Christian Mission "Spiritual and Charitable Care in Prisons" including twelve Churches and Denominations. This Mission is a part of the World Association of Prison Ministry. Synod