Some aspects of perfecting the system of penitentiary bodies and institutions

Abstract

Recently, Ukrainian society has been undergoing essential reforms, which were dynamically changing during democratization and humanization, and did not leave the penitentiary institutions aside. The optimization of the penitentiary system itself started in 2017, which allowed obtaining legal and organizational tools for closing unnecessary penitentiary institutions. The purpose of this study was to investigate and analyse the aspects of optimization of the penitentiary system of Ukraine, which currently is one of the equally important social institutions that solves large-scale legal, economic, social, and psychological-pedagogical tasks. Presently, crime stays one of the issues in Ukraine. The study used the general dialectical research method and the formal logical method. The theoretical framework of this paper included the studies of scientists, which contributed to the comprehensive investigation of crime and the development of the mechanism for the proper functioning of the criminal executive system considering its modernization. The study examines the current state of national legislation on the activities of penitentiary institutions in Ukraine, their development concepts and the need to improve innovative technologies borrowed from foreign practices (USA, Great Britain, France) in the activities of penitentiary workers. Ways and proposals for their improvement were formulated. To date, Ukraine has still not fully resolved the problems regarding the mechanism for the protection of human rights in matters of optimization of the system of bodies and institutions for the execution of punishments