Topical Issues of Parole Release from Imprisonment

Abstract

The article is devoted to consideration of issues of legislative regulation and the practice of parole release from imprisonment. Based on the study of statistics and the practice of reducing both the total number of applications for the granting of parole and the percentage of decisions rendered in favor of the convicts. According to the authors, these trends are due not only and not so much to stricter legislation on parole, but more on the change in the "qualitative" composition of convicts. The study allows the authors to distinguish three main groups of problems involving parole from sentences. The first group includes problems between collisions of various branches of the Russian legislation arising from attempts to simultaneously address problems of parole immediately in all legal fields. The second group of problems connected with the use of the legal institute inquestion to convicts who during the consideration and determination of the case have been detained for a long time. And, finally, the third group of problems stems from the need to increase the objectivity of decision-making on the provision or denial of parole. The article proposes changes to improve the effectiveness of the legal institution of parole.