Abstract

In the process of the supervision by the procuracy [district attorney's office] of the observance of legality in correctional labor colonies, it is quite essential to verify the state and effectiveness of disciplinary practices. Studies conducted by us on the effectiveness of disciplinary penalties in a colony testify to serious shortcomings in the records kept on infractions of the routine and in the actual disciplinary practices themselves. The existing form of records on the number and type of penalties do not reveal the true state of the regimen in the colony, since they take note only of those infractions for which penalties are imposed by the administration and are recorded. However, there are petty offenses for which the guilty are not punished, or for which the measures of influence — for example, a verbal reprimand or a warning — are not recorded in journals or reports. This circumstance permits the administrations of correctional labor colonies to regulate the number and type of penalties, which...

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