CRIMINAL-EXECUTIVE POLICY AS A PART OF THE LEGAL POLICY OF THE RUSSIAN STATE IN THE FIELD OF LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY

The article examines the problems of the Russian Federation's penitentiary system related to the functioning on the basis of statistical data. The article deals with the problems of non-observance of the norms of keeping convicts in remand centers: obsolescence of buildings and communications, non-observance of sanitary norms of living space, unsatisfactory situation of ensuring the right to health protection and the right to personal security. The article also examines the problem of the need to reorient a certain number of correctional institutions, caused by the obsolescence of the detachment (group) system of convicts living as a legacy of Soviet penal correction legislation. The author comes to a conclusion about the construction of new colonies and regime buildings, the deterioration of the housing stock of institutions. The necessary construction volumes of buildings and structures in the penitentiary system are given in the article on the basis of official data of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia.

Separately the problems arising in the field of health protection and providing convicts with labor are examined in the article. In Russia criminal-executive system today about 30 % of convicts are employed in the production. Penitentiary unemployment is the main problem of economic security of the penal system. Consequently, it leads to the commission of new crimes now within the walls of correctional institutions, various outrages when serving criminal penalties, as well as the moral disintegration of convicts.

As part of ensuring human rights, the work addresses the issue of personal safety of convicts, suspects and accused in the institutions of the penal system. The growing number of criminal gangs in prisons, crimes and other offenses in the sphere of life, health and human sexual freedom poses this problem as one of the main problems. The author comes to the conclusion that the above-mentioned problems with the material conditions of detention, lack of the necessary number of jobs, insufficient work on the conversion of colonies, gaps in the penal enforcement legislation are the reasons for the problems in the personal safety of convicts.

The author also places emphasis on the spread of religious and political extremism in correctional institutions. The article suggests ways to solve these problems.