Improving the quality of incentive and prohibitive measures in public and private penitentiary institutions

Abstract

The article analyzes the use of incentive and prohibitive measures by staff of the penitentiary service. The main purpose of the article is to study the use of incentive and prohibitive measures by the staff, to identify gaps and weaknesses in this work. It also requires an analysis of the experience of foreign countries in the application of incentive and prohibitive measures in public and private penitentiary institutions for the execution of sentences.

The analysis of the norms of domestic criminal-executive law and other regulatory acts governing the provision of incentive and prohibitive measures in order to improve the Ukrainian legislation. Considered the role of staff. It was emphasized that the professional activity of the staff of the penitentiary service is based on the implementation of legal and moral requirements. Compliance with the law and the prevention of offenses is the main indicator of the maturity and reliability of reliability. The issues of assimilation of these measures by prisoners sentenced to imprisonment are considered. Problems of poor punitive-corrective impact on convicts. The main ones are: lack of or lack of relevant professional skills; lack of time that does not allow for the qualitative application of individual and differentiated interventions; lack of adequate funding.

Summarizing the experience of foreign countries, it is indicated that in Ukraine there are opportunities for the functioning of private institutions for the execution of sentences. It was noted that the focus should not be on business activities, but on creating conditions for serving the sentence, rectifying and re-socializing convicts.

The findings indicate that incentive and prohibitive measures accumulate in themselves the social goal and the need of society for attaining the state of correction and re-socialization of the criminal and on this basis his becoming as a law-abiding person.

Incentive and prohibitive measures should be applied comprehensively and comprehensively as educational and operational-sensitive means in the implementation of corrective action. It is noted that the complex interaction of all parts and services in this direction and provides for the implementation of joint planned and operational activities that are implemented by staff in a timely manner for their implementation.