ECONOMIC AND LEGAL NATURE OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN THE PENITENTIARY SYSTEM

Abstract

Urgency of the research is in the necessity to solve a complex task for the improvement and development of new forms of economic and legal provision of the execution of punishments. Target setting. Despite the state recognition of the concept of «public-private partnership» in the Penitentiary sphere, a lot of issues concerning economic and legal nature of this institute require in-depth interdisciplinary research. Actual scientific researchers and issues analysis. Domestic and foreign scholars researched the issues of ex-pediency or inexpediency of creating private penal institutions, due to legal attitudes, without paying attention to economic component. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. The issues as to argumentation of private sector in the field of execution of punishments using are still underdeveloped. The research objective. Clarification of economic and legal nature of public-private partnership in the Penitentiary System with further substantiation of its perspective forms for reaching the goal of economic expediency and correction and re-socialization of convicts. The statement of basic materials. Foreign experience studying enabled to identify such forms of public-private part-nership in the Penitentiary System as: 1) provision of psycho-logical, medical and educational spheres of activity, as well as maintenance of prison facilities; 2) economic component of prison functioning, medical and social services and partially security functions; 3) transporting, feeding and providing other services for prisoners’ holding; 4) guarding and maintaining order in courts; 5) prisoners’ guarding in medical institutions. Conclusions. The following perspective forms of economic and socio-legal substantiation for public-private part-nership in the Penitentiary System are offered: 1) concluding contracts regarding labor employment of convicts; 2) building of new remand prisons and penal institutions in the cities of Ukraine at the expense of redistribution of public and private funds.