ECONOMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS OF CONVICTS LABOR ADAPTATION IN OPEN AND SEMI-OPEN CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

The problems of the article are related to the need to ensure effective labor adaptation of persons detained in places of imprisonment, as an important part of the process of their resocialization and social adaptation in accordance with international requirements and standards, the modern needs of Russian society and the state. The purpose of the work is to identify and compare the economic and professional features of adaptation to the work of the special continent of open and semi-open correctional institutions. In this regard, the most common types of correctional institutions in the domestic penitentiary system, such as colony-settlements and correctional colonies with a strict regime, in which more than half of all those sentenced to imprisonment are serving their sentences, were the object of the study. Based on the results of the questionnaire survey, the author of the article carried out a comparative analysis of the main parameters of the statistical portrait of a sample of convicts, the peculiarities of the professional-sectoral structure of employment of the special contingent of these types of correctional institutions, motives, attitudes towards work, the degree of adaptation to work, etc. A number of problems and discouraging factors of the respondents’ labor activity were identified. The research results are intended to substantiate the directions of development and improvement of the sphere of convicts labor adaptation.