INSTITUTIONAL REFORMATION OF THE CRIMINAL AND EXECUTIVE SYSTEM AND ITS TRANSFORMATION INTO A PENITENTIARY SYSTEM

Abstract

The issue of institutional reform of the criminal enforcement system and its transformation into a penitentiary system was described in the article. It has been proven that this reformation is one of the priorities of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. Current theoretical and practical issues of reforming the criminal-executive system and its transformation into a penitentiary system are highlighted: the use in theory and practice of the term "penitentiary system”; the influence of means of correction and resocialization on the process of reforming the criminal enforcement system and its transformation into a penitentiary system; assessment of the state of material, household and health care of convicts in places of imprisonment. The author's definition of the penitentiary system of Ukraine is formulated – it is a state institution that is empowered to form and implement state policy in the penitentiary sphere, by involving in this process relevant state and non-state bodies and institutions with the aim of returning to society persons who have committed criminal offenses as law-abiding citizens. The material described above in this article made it possible to formulate the following conclusions. In order to improve the reform of the criminal-executive system and its transformation into a penitentiary system, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine is proposed to create a powerful and constructive cooperation with domestic scientists, which will allow introducing innovative achievements of both theoretical and practical direction into the activities of the bodies and institutions for the execution of punishments. For this purpose, it is necessary to revive the scientific expert council. It has been proven that the success of any reforms depends on the level of their perception by people who rely on their implementation. And therefore, the reform of the criminal-executive system and its transformation into a penitentiary system requires a change in professional training and retraining in terms of finding a balance between the interests of staff and convicts. The reform of the criminal-executive system and its transformation into a penitentiary system must necessarily provide for the improvement of the conditions of detention of convicts, their material, household and medical-sanitary support in places of imprisonment, since this process stimulates the latter to correction, resocialization and reintegration into society. The great importance for the reform of the criminal-executive system and its transformation into a penitentiary system has the improvement of the system of encouraging convicts to law-abiding behavior and resocialization through the introduction of a gradual change in the conditions of their detention, the development and implementation of a system of criteria for assessing the degrees of correction of convicts, and the establishment of effective interaction of bodies and institutions of execution system with subjects of social patronage of persons released from places of imprisonment.