SOME QUESTIONS OF INVOLVING OF SENTENCED PERSONS TO IMPRISONMENT TO LABOR AND PROPOSALS FOR ITS OPTIMIZATION

Abstract

The article deals with separate issues of the content of socially useful labor as a means of correction and resocialization of sentenced persons to imprisonment in the context of bringing criminal-executive legislation and practice of its application by international standards for the enforcement of criminal sentences and the realization of the rights of them.

It has been determined that socially useful labor in conditions of imprisonment is not an element of punishment, but aimed at providing the process of correction and resocialization, is the personal right of the sentenced persons to prison, which corresponds to the administration's duty to ensure the realization of this right.

The article draws attention on the tendency towards reducing the number of jobs at enterprises/workshops of penal institutions and sentenced persons to imprisonment involved in labor, causes, and consequences of this phenomenon.

Therefore, one of the priority tasks of the Ministry of Justice is the optimization the production activities and employment of prisoners. It requires amendments to the law, in particular, regarding the creation of a system of preferences for business entities that use the work of prisoners while serving their sentences, as well as making changes to the normative and legal acts on stimulation and increase motivation for participation in socially useful labor.