Journal section JURISPRUDENCE
Living and Material Support for Convicts: Legal and Economic Analysis
Tomina N.M. Living and material support for convicts: legal and economic analysis. Penitentiary Science, 2026, vol. 20, no. 2 (74), pp. 199–209. doi 10.46741/2713- 2811.2026.74.2.010.
the article considers various legal and financial aspects of living and material
support for convicts, analyzes normative legal acts regulating support activities of institutions
of the penal system. One of the purposes of the study is to determine the society’s possibilities to
ensure detention in conditions that comply with the norms, without violating the rights and interests
of convicts established by law in order to achieve the goals of criminal punishment. Methods:
descriptive, comparative, as well as the method of appercipation. The conclusions of the article are
aimed at developing the theoretical foundations of providing convicts with material benefits within
the limits established by law, stipulated by punishments for crimes against society, and within the
framework of financial potential in the form of budgetary allocations supplemented by the institutions’
own resource capabilities.
Keywords: living and material support for convicts; rights and legitimate interests; needs and requirements; support activities; budget allocations.
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Candidate of Sciences (Economics),
Associate Professor, associate professor at the Department
of Accounting, Analysis, Finance, and Taxation of the
Academy of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia,
Ryazan, Russia, nineliya@list.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-
0003-1020-603X
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2. Yusupova A.N. On the place of material and household support in the correctional process of convicts. Chelovek:
prestuplenie i nakazanie = Man: Crime and Punishment, 2021, vol. 29 (1–4), no. 3, pp. 400–403. (In Russ.).
3. Zarubina O.A., Kon’yakova I.E. Material and household support for convicts in Russia and Belarus. In: III Mezhdunarodnyi
penitentsiarnyi forum “Prestuplenie, nakazanie, ispravlenie” (k 20-letiyu vstupleniya v silu Ugolovno-ispolnitel’nogo
kodeksa Rossiiskoi Federatsii): sb. tez. vystup. i dokl. uchastnikov mezhdunar. nauch.-prakt. konf. T. 5 [III International
penitentiary forum “Crime, punishment, correction” (on the 20th anniversary of the entry into force of the Penal Code of the
Russian Federation): collection of reports of the participants of the international scientific and practical conference. Volume
5]. Ryazan, 2017. Pp. 63–66. (In Russ.).
4. Men’shchikov E.S., Gamanenko L.I. Organization of food and clothing provision for convicts deprived of liberty. In: Permskii
period: sb. materialov nauch.-prakt. konf. v ramkakh VII Mezhdunar. nauch.-sportiv. festivalya kursantov i studentov: v 2
t. T. 2 [Perm period: proceedings of the scientific and practical conference within the framework of the VII International
scientific and sports festival of cadets and students: in 2 volumes. Volume 2]. Perm, 2020. Pp. 274–278. (In Russ.).
5. Isakova T.I. On some problems of material and household support for those sentenced to imprisonment. Vestnik nauki =
Bulletin of Science, 2024, vol. 2, no. 10 (79), pp. 245–248. (In Russ.).
6. Grishko A.Ya., Rybakov V.V. Imushchestvennye i neimushchestvennye prava lits, otbyvayushchikh lishenie svobody
[Property and non-property rights of persons serving imprisonment]. Ryazan, 2007. 255 p.
7. Vserossiiskii koordinatsionnyi sovet upolnomochennykh po pravam cheloveka «Zashchita prav cheloveka v mestakh
prinuditel’nogo soderzhaniya», 23 sentyabrya 2025 goda v Moskve [All-Russian Coordinating Council of Human Rights
Commissioners “Protection of human rights in places of forced detention”, September 23, 2025 in Moscow]. Available:
https://www.advgazeta.ru/novosti/ (accessed February 13, 2026).
8. Kovalev O.G. Ensuring the rights of convicts in the light of the implementation of the internal regulations of correctional
institutions of the penal system (comparative legal analysis). Obrazovanie i pravo = Education and Law, 2024, no. 8, pp.
378–382. (In Russ.).
9. Petrova S.I. Needs and consumption in a social context. Omskii nauchnyi vestnik = Omsk Scientific Bulletin, 2010, no. 1
(65), pp. 209–212. (In Russ.).
10. Entsiklopediya penitentsiarnogo prava [Encyclopedia of penal law]. Ed. by Romashev R.A. Samara, 2013. 692 p.
11. Federal’noe kaznacheistvo [The Federal Treasury]. Available at: https: //budgetdata.ru/agencies/federal-penitentiaryservice/
2024 (accessed February 12, 2026).
12. Valov E.L. Analysis of logistical support of the penitentiary system of the Russian Federation using the comparative method.
Voprosy sovremennoi nauki i praktiki = Issues of Modern Science and Practice, 2024, no. 2 (11), pp. 65–68. (In Russ.).
13. Tsibul’skaya G.Z., Tomina N.M. Modern aspects of providing material resources to institutions of the penal system.
Vedomosti ugolovno-ispolnitel’noi sistemy = Bulletin of the Penal System, 2022, no. 6, pp. 70–80. (In Russ.).
14. Potapov A.M. On the compliance of the material and household provision of persons sentenced to imprisonment
in Russia and Belarus with the UN Minimum Standard Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Nelson Mandela Rules). In:
Aktual’nye voprosy sovremennoi yuridicheskoi nauki: teoriya, praktika, metodika: sb. materialov II Mezhdunar. zaoch.
nauch. konf. (Mogilev, 19 maya 2017 goda) [Actual issues of modern legal science: theory, practice, methodology:
collection of materials II International correspondence scientific conference (Mogilev, May 19, 2017)]. Mogilev, 2017.
Pp. 429–432. (In Russ.).
15. Naryshkina N.I. Regulation of the material and household provision of persons sentenced to imprisonment under the
legislation of the post-Soviet countries. Voprosy sovremennoi nauki i praktiki = Issues of Modern Science and Practice,
2023, no. 1 (8), pp. 44–48. (In Russ.).
16. Urusov A.A., Uganban U. Benchmarking analysis of material and domestic ensuring of convicts in Russia and Mongolia.
Vestnik sibirskogo yuridicheskogo instituta MVD Rossii = Bulletin of the Siberian Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal
Affairs of Russia, 2017, no. 3 (28), pp. 61–65. (In Russ.).
17. Batbold Galbadrakh. Ensuring the rights of convicts in correctional institutions in Mongolia. Vestnik Kuzbasskogo
instituta = Bulletin of the Kuzbass Institute, 2017, no. 1 (30), pp. 20–28. (In Russ.).
18. Pravila vnutrennego rasporyadka v uchrezhdeniyakh ispolneniya nakazanii Germanii [Internal regulations in German
penitentiary institutions]. Available at: https://newleipzig.mid.ru (accessed February 13, 2026).
19. Siryakov A.N. Comparison of the material and domestic rights of convicts on the example of Spain and Russia. Ugolovnoispolnitel’noe
pravo = Penal Law, 2025, vol. 20 (1-4), no. 3, pp. 435–447. (In Russ.).
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al ciudadano. Available at: https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-1996-4997 (accessed February 13, 2026).
21. Minimal’nye standarty razmerov lichnogo prostranstva v penitentsiarnykh uchrezhdeniyakh: obshchie aspekty
[Minimum standards for the size of personal space in penitentiary institutions: general aspects]. Available at: https://
rm.coe.int/168073450f (accessed February 12, 2026).
22. Penitentsiarnaya sistema Shvetsii segodnya i zavtra [The Swedish penitentiary system today and tomorrow]. Available
at: https://rodon.orgt (accessed February 14, 2026).
23. Tyur’ma v Finlyandii [Prison in Finland]. Available at: https://www.linguacontact.ru/blog/zhizn-v-finlyandii/ (accessed
February 14, 2026).
24. Dobryakov D.A. Deprivation of liberty and the organization of prisoners’ labor in Scandinavian countries. Vestnik RUDN.
Seriya: Yuridicheskie nauki = Bulletin of the RUDN University. Series: Legal Sciences, 2022, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 403–418.
(In Russ.).
25. Norvezhskaya tyur’ma [Norwegian prison]. Available at: https:// studfile.netpikabu.ru (accessed February 14, 2026).
26. Cretenot M., Liaras B. Prison conditions in France. European Prison Observatory. Detention conditions in the European
Union. Available at: http://www.prisonobservatory.org/upload/PrisonconditionsinFrance.pdf (accessed February 13, 2026).
27. Teplyashin P.V. French type of European penitentiary systems. Vestnik Samarskogo yuridicheskogo institute = Bulletin
of the Samara Law Institute, 2016, no. 1 (19), pp. 65–71. (In Russ.).
28. “Khronicheskaya” perepolnennost’ tyurem vo Frantsii [“Chronic” overcrowding in prisons in France]. Available at:
https://fondfbr.ru/stati/france-prisons/ (accessed February 13, 2026).
