Abstract
Correctional facilities are created to implement penalties for persons who have committed criminal offences. Consequently, persons held in them are often socially dangerous, criminally infected and inclined to deviant behavior. At the same time, the isolation, restriction of discretion and movement, the need to stay for a long time in a certain group of people are triggering factors and cause such conditions as boredom, irritation, apathy, depression, emotional instability. These circumstances do not exclude the occurrence of emergencies caused by a violation of standards and rules of conduct by persons sentenced to imprisonment, as evidenced by the facts recorded in penitentiary practice. Working in such conditions imposes special requirements to employees. In respect thereof, particular attention is paid to the need for penal system employees to be ready for emergency circumstances. This type of readiness is complex and includes motivationally interdependent will, cognitive and activity components. The formation of the given components depends on a number of external and internal factors. While preparing staff for professional tasks in emergency circumstances, it is rather important to pay attention not only to personal, but also to the collective readiness of staff units. The staff readiness to emergencies contributes to the effective service tasks execution, increases the sense of self-confidence in staff and their authority among colleagues, and affects the nature of professional communication.
Highlights
In the current conditions of the domestic penal system, the problem of preventing crimes committed by convicts in correctional facilities is quite acute
According to the Federal Constitutional Law of May 30, 2001, No 3-FKZ “On state of emergency” [2], emergency circumstances refer to circumstances that constitute an immediate threat to the life and security of citizens or to the constitutional order of the Russian Federation and whose elimination is impossible without the application of emergency measures
A number of penitentiary researchers believe that the definition of “emergency circumstances” combines two terms: “emergency situations” and “emergency incidents,” where the first term is understood as an unfavourable situation caused by circumstances of a natural and man-made character, and the second as short-term and single events, usually of a criminal nature, disrupting the correct work of penal facilities [4]
Summary
In the current conditions of the domestic penal system, the problem of preventing crimes committed by convicts in correctional facilities is quite acute. Apart from the usual tasks established by law, due to the international implications, increased terrorist threats, attempts to discredit the Federal Penal Service of the Russian Federation in the society and on television, optimization of the number of employees of the penal system and other phenomena, in the functioning process of the PCS facilities may arise situations that require special attention and some provisional measures.
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