Legal and Organizational Support for the Distribution of Convicts in Correctional Institutions: Problems and Improvement Directions
Kutakov N.N., Metlin D.G. Legal and organizational support for the distribution of convicts in correctional institutions: problems and improvement directions. Penitentiary Science, 2025, vol. 19, no. 3 (71), pp. 278–284. doi 10.46741/2686-9764.2025.71.3.006.
the article discusses problems associated with the activities of correctional institutions in assessing personal qualities of convicts for their distribution into squads (departments) from the quarantine department. The purpose of the study is to identify potential risks associated with the organization and legal regulation of the work of the correctional institution’s commission for the distribution of convicts, as well as to develop proposals for optimizing this process. Methods: historical-legal, formal-legal, comparative-legal, descriptive, method of legal modeling. The results of the study confirm the need to improve penal legislation in the field of legal regulation of the procedure for the distribution of convicts in correctional institutions, as well as the development of a unified model of criteria for assessing personal qualities of convicts in the process of their distribution into detachments.
Keywords: correctional institutions; a group of convicts; distribution of convicts; criteria for assessing the personality of a convict; educational work.
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