On the role of prohibited in places of deprivation will items in the mechanism of committing crimes convicted

Abstract

The article deals with such a condition that contributes to the commission of crimes sentenced to imprisonment, such as the presence of prohibited items, substances and means of these persons, as well as some ways to eliminate them, block, neutralize, etc.

As practice shows, 200 or more crimes are committed annually by convicted prisoners. At the same time, one of the conditions that facilitated their commissioning was the presence in these persons of objects, articles and substances, the storage and use of which were convicted by the prisoners in accordance with Annex 3 to the Rules of Internal Order of the Penitentiary Institutions (hereinafter referred to as the JCE Jail) and in general terms – Art. 102 of the Criminal Enforcement Code (CPC) of Ukraine.

Moreover, due to the low level and effectiveness of the implementation in the institutions of punishment of preventive measures related to the searches of the territory of the protected objects, as well as the convicts, their belongings and objects, the number of prohibited funds withdrawn from these persons annually and the same for 1 thousand. convicts.

Indicative in this context are the statistics that characterize this phenomenon concerning 1992–2016. Thus, in 1992 (the first reporting period of Ukraine's independence), convicts who were serving sentences of a certain term were removed. almost 500 liters of spirits and over 20 tons of braga. This is despite the fact that in the Basic Directions of the Criminal Enforcement System Reform in the Ukrainian SSR, which were approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of the USSR, such a task was enshrined as expanding the range of items of individual and collective use of prisoners in places of deprivation of liberty.

The same situation did not change significantly in 1999 (the first reporting year of the State Department of Ukraine for the Execution of Sentences (STSDP) after its withdrawal from submission to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in 1998). In particular, in 1999, 738.4 liters of alcohol and other prohibited articles and substances (8 thousand 244 grams of narcotic substances, 60 thousand UAH, 9 thousand 235 USD, etc.) were seized from prisoners imprisoned).

Similar indicators were observed in 2011 (the first reporting period after subordination of bodies and institutions of execution of sentences to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine), namely: 33.7 liters of liquor were confiscated from prisoners, 6 875 liters of braga, 934 grams of narcotic drugs and other prohibited items.

In 2015, 70 liters of alcoholic beverages and 7,000 535 liters of braga, as well as other prohibited items, were confiscated from prisoners imprisoned in 2015 (the first reporting period after the reform of the penal system in Ukraine). The same trends persisted in the years to come.