Correction of Convicts in Operational, Educational and Psychological Work of Penitentiary System

Abstract

The article deals with the ways to achieve the goal of the penal legislation — the correction of convicts — from the point of view of educational, psychological and operational work. The authors prove their findings by providing statistics for 2020. The authors pay attention to the fact that the main goal of a penitentiary system is to correct a convict. If so, then failure in achieving this goal only leads to the isolation of the criminogenic subject from society for a certain period of time, but after leaving places of imprisonment, people commit crimes again. Due to the fact that convicts have changed over the past few decades, the authorized bodies and officials need to work precisely in accordance with the characteristics of the “today's” convict. Thus, the most common crimes leading to imprisonment nowadays are various types of theft and injury as well as drugs and psychotropic substances trafficking. The authors attempted to outline some topical issues in operational, educational and psychological work of the penal system bodies.