The labour activities of convicts outside the correctional institutions: the validity and problems of implementation

Shershnev Mikhail

Objective: to Develop theoretical provisions on the effectiveness, permissibility and expediency of measures of re-socialization of convicts in the form of their work outside of correctional institutions. Methods: methods of analysis, synthesis, deductive, formal-legal, statistical methods were used in the preparation of the material. Results: proposed the concept that the current replacement of the unserved part of punishment by softer kind of punishment is applied in a modified form not only as incentives for positive actions of the convicted person for the period of punishment, but as a measure of re-socialization, the application of which should be aimed at the majority of prisoners. Conclusions: The article concludes with the conclusion about the applicability of these practices and their role in the resocialization of prisoners.

Keywords:penitentiary system; resocialization; convicts; reoffending; labor activity of prisoners.