Prosecutorial Activities for Prevention of Offenses in Penitentiary System Institutions

Abstract

The conceptual basis of the prosecutor’s activity on the prevention of offenses in the institutions of the penal system is accounted for the specifics of offenses committed by persons held in them; features of their personality; distinctive features of the causes and conditions for committing offenses in penal institutions; opportunities for prosecutorial supervision in the area under consideration. Timely prevention of disciplinary offenses of convicts makes it possible to effectively counter penitentiary crimes, since both of them encroach on the same object. The basis for the prevention of offenses should be the provision of a strict procedure for serving deprivation of liberty or detention. Carrying out preventive work is complicated by the following factors: high latency and difficulty in proving penitentiary crimes, features of the average profile of a penitentiary criminal, which is a mature man with a stable criminal personality type. Any illegal actions (inaction) of employees of penitentiary institutions can lead to the commission of penitentiary offenses, since all the activities of these institutions are subordinated to the goals of correcting convicts and preventing the commission of new crimes. Timely detection and elimination of violations of the law committed by employees of penitentiary institutions, as well as increasing the level of legal literacy and developing the legal awareness of persons held in penitentiary institutions, constitute the prevention of their offenses, carried out by the prosecutor’s office.