National Penitentiary Research Articles

Education in the prison system: an analysis of the Amazonas prison system

This study investigates the effectiveness of public education policies for people deprived of their liberty in the state of Amazonas, in the context of a systemic crisis recognized by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) as an unconstitutional state of affairs. The research was motivated by the need to examine the strategies implemented to tackle the widespread violations of fundamental rights within the prison system, with a special focus on education as a means of resocialization. The central objective was to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of public education policies aimed at inmates and former inmates, with a focus on the state education plan for the Amazonas prison system. Using documentary analysis and a literature review, as well as statistical data provided by the National Penitentiary Department (DEPEN), this study identified significant advances in the provision of educational activities, evidenced by the increase in the number of inmates engaged in educational programs. However, the research revealed important gaps, such as the lack of precise indicators for evaluating policies and the need to guarantee the quality of the education offered. It was concluded that, despite quantitative progress, qualitative and strategic improvements are needed if education in the prison system is to effectively promote the resocialization and social reintegration of individuals. Future research suggests analyzing the impact of these policies on reducing recidivism and improving the quality of life of inmates, as well as comparing educational practices between different states to identify successful models.

ОСНОВНЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ ПЕНИТЕНЦИАРНОЙ СИСТЕМЫ В ТАДЖИКИСТАНЕ И ПУТИ ИХ РЕШЕНИЯ

The article highlights the main stages of formation and development in penitentiary policy of modern Tajikistan. The author considers the issues of the penitentiary system, which include the shortage of places for serving sentences, unsatisfactory conditions of detention, the spread of socially dangerous diseases among prisoners, the lack of adequate mechanisms for organizing the work of those serving sentences, in the context of the general political and economic situation in the Republic of Tajikistan. In the author’s opinion, the penitentiary system of Tajikistan is projected on the whole inherent issues of post-Soviet Tajikistan, aggravated by the Civil War of 1992–1997: lack of efficiency of the economy and public administration, deficit of financial resources, unsatisfactory rates and quality of human capital development, etc. The special problem is the geopolitical situation in the Republic of Tajikistan. A special issue is the geopolitical situation of Tajikistan, which borders on turbulent Afghanistan and is in a zone of increased danger associated with drug trafficking, arms smuggling and the activities of various extremist groups. Such a situation, as the author points out, creates an additional and very serious burden on the penitentiary system of the Republic of Tajikistan. One of the central subjects considered in the article is the reform of the Tajikistan penitentiary system. Turning to the issue, the author pays special attention to its foreign policy aspect and draws the reader’s attention to the ambiguity of the role played by international organizations in improving the national penitentiary policy

Classification of international legal obligations on the rights and freedoms of convicts

In the modern science of international law and European law, insufficient attention is paid to the problem of protecting the rights and freedoms of convicts, their typology. Especially in the conditions of modern threats and challenges, there are numerous violations of various categories of the population, including the vulnerable, who are in the temporarily occupied territories. This causes the attention of scientists, as well as representatives of authorized authorities, to be drawn to certain theoretical and practical problems of protecting the rights and freedoms of convicts, their varieties, effective mechanisms of protection, restoration of violated rights.
 Therefore, the purpose of the article is to analyze the existing doctrinal sources and relevant approaches, criteria for the classification of international legal obligations on the rights and freedoms of convicts, to highlight their special varieties, effective mechanisms for the protection of the rights and freedoms of convicts.
 There are many types of international legal obligations on the rights and freedoms of convicts, as well as criteria and approaches to their classification. Along with international legal obligations, other related categories are used in the science and practice of international law – international legal mechanisms, international legal standards. Undoubtedly, they also concern the rights and freedoms of convicts, they are interacting but not identical concepts. The analyzed classification groups of international legal mechanisms, standards and obligations to ensure the rights and freedoms of convicts are based on established approaches to the typology of human rights and freedoms, existing international legal norms and principles in this field. At the same time, the penitentiary systems of specific states, including Ukraine, are characterized by specificities, features of national legislation, national penitentiary policy, institutional and other mechanisms.
 Reports of international experts and monitoring measures demonstrate certain problems in the way of fulfilling international legal obligations regarding the rights and freedoms of convicts in Ukraine. Therefore, further systematic studies of the European penitentiary concept, the best foreign practices of compliance with such obligations, decisions of the ECtHR, the strengthening of a human-centered approach in the activities of penitentiary authorities, the functioning of an effective legal system that would protect human rights and freedoms regardless of the conditions in which she stays without being discriminated against, without additional restrictions caused by the fact of isolation.

The Consequences of the Pandemic in the Hungarian Penitentiary System

The Covid-19 epidemic put significant pressure on national penitentiary services all over the world to control the impacts of the pandemic on closed prison environments. The prison services of the member states of the Council of Europe responded with incredible speed and effectiveness with preventive and administrative measures to prevent the spread of the virus. The objective of the Council of Europe, EuroPris and other international organisations, was to support the member states’ responses to the situation in prisons by facilitating the exchange of information and best practices. The present study examines and analyses the statements and recommendations of the most important bodies and committees of the Council of Europe, in parallel with measures and solutions implemented in Hungary, in the light of international recommendations.The paper is based on a descriptive analysis of the Council of Europe expectations and recommendations and their applicability in the Hungarian prison system. Hungary has successfully processed and incorporated almost all of the expectations of the international parties, in fact, the country took further steps to make the pandemic’s outreached contacts of prisoners and relatives more colourful and active.Prevention and control measures adopted in a timely manner were effective both in Hungary and in other Council of Europe member states. This study highlights the critical importance of rapid and appropriate actions by international control bodies and the open and cooperative response of the national prison services.

The reduction of the prison subculture. Legislative recommendation

Subculturalization is a natural process for prisons. Unfortunately, it has many negative effects. In the case of the penitentiary subculture from the carceral environment of our country, the situation is even worse. It is a very dan-gerous post-Soviet subculture that tends to capture all social subsystems. In order for this not to happen, we must take preventive measures. In this article I tried to identify the legislative measures that can be taken to combat the phenomenon. There are some changes that can be made to the Executive Code and the Criminal Code that I think would reduce the process of subculturalization of prisoners. In order to implement these changes, it will be necessary to adopt certain regulations at the level of the National Penitentiary Administration.

The concept and features of staffing of the State Criminal Executive Service and probation bodies in Ukraine

The sphere of criminal penalties in our country has been undergoing reform for many years, and even today, in the context of Ukraine's opposition to the open full-scale military invasion of the russian federation, the work on transforming and improving the national penitentiary system has not stopped. The Ukrainian government, in cooperation with the international community, academics and civil society, has already taken a number of important steps to humanise the system. At the same time, some rather important problematic issues on this path have not yet received proper scientific and theoretical study or legislative regulation, in particular, the problem of staffing the State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine and authorised probation bodies. The current Strategy for Reforming the Penitentiary System of Ukraine describes the problems of staffing in a rather superficial and fragmentary way, in fact, everything is reduced to its purpose and most important tasks. Obviously, this approach does not contribute to the improvement of the principles and mechanisms of this provision, nor to the efficiency and quality of the reform of the penitentiary system as a whole.
 In order to intensify research work in this area, the existing approaches to the definition of the concept of staffing have been considered, its main features and structural elements (components) have been identified, and the content of the most essential properties has been characterised. Attention has been paid to the connection and correlation between staffing and personnel policy, and the definition of the concept of staffing of the State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine and authorized probation bodies has been formulated. Emphasis has been placed on the expediency of legislative consolidation of the definition of the concept of staffing of bodies and services of the penitentiary system of Ukraine, and on the fact that staffing has a complex internal structure and managerial nature. In this regard, attention has been paid to the role of administrative and legal regulation in organising and streamlining the relations and processes of staffing in the system of the State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine and authorised probation bodies.

СТАН РОЗРОБКИ КРИМІНАЛЬНО-ВИКОНАВЧИХ ЗАСАД МЕДИКО-САНІТАРНОГО ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ ЗАСУДЖЕНИХ ДО ПОЗБАВЛЕННЯ ВОЛІ В УКРАЇНІ

The article defines the state of the criminal and executive principles development of medical and sanitary support of prisoners sentenced to imprisonment in Ukraine. It was found that national penitentiary scientists did not pay enough attention to this issue, since the study of the medical and sanitary support of convicts in places of imprisonment was not conducted. Therefore, during the research, it is necessary to eliminate this problem, since the medical and sanitary support of prisoners sentenced to imprisonment in Ukraine is: first, a component of serving a criminal sentence; secondly, it is their health, which is important after the convicts have served their sentence for the committed crime, in order to ensure effective social adaptation; thirdly, it is a certain part of the reform of the penitentiary system of Ukraine and its transformation into a penitentiary system of a new European model. A number of previously unexplored directions that require in-depth scientific research within the scope of the research subject have been identified, which, in particular, are: – formulation of a methodological toolkit for the study of criminal and executive principles of medical and sanitary support of prisoners sentenced to imprisonment in Ukraine; – research on the origins of the formation and development of the regulatory and legal regulation of medical and sanitary support of prisoners sentenced to deprivation of liberty in Ukraine; – analysis of international legal regulation and foreign experience of medical and sanitary support of prisoners sentenced to imprisonment; – definition of the concept and content of medical and sanitary support for prisoners sentenced to imprisonment; – determination of the place of medical and sanitary support of prisoners sentenced to imprisonment in the mechanism of implementation of the right to health care; – establishing a correlation and clarifying the extent of the influence of the state of health of those sentenced to imprisonment on the change in their legal status; – providing a description of the organizational principles and interaction of authorized subjects regarding the medical and sanitary support of prisoners sentenced to imprisonment in Ukraine; – formulation of proposals for improving the criminal law enforcement of Ukraine and law enforcement practice in the field of medical and sanitary support for those sentenced to imprisonment; – development of the Concept of Reform (Development) of Penitentiary medicine in Ukraine. Key words: state of development, subject of research, science of criminal and executive law, criminal and executive principles, medical and sanitary support of those sentenced to imprisonment.

The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Hungarian Penitentiary System and Its Transformation Processes

The Covid-19 epidemic has put significant pressure on national penitentiary services all over the world to control the impacts that the pandemic has on closed prison environments. The prison services of the member states of the Council of Europe have responded with incredible speed and effectiveness with preventive and administrative measures to prevent the spread of the virus. The objective of the Council of Europe, EuroPris and other international organisations, was to support the member states’ responses to the situation in prisons by facilitating the exchange of information and best practices. The present study examines the statements and recommendations of the most important bodies and committees of the Council of Europe, in parallel with measures and solutions implemented in Hungary, in the light of international recommendations. The paper is based on a descriptive analysis of the Council of Europe expectations and recommendations and their applicability in the Hungarian prison system. Hungary has successfully processed and incorporated mostly all of the expectation of the international parties, in fact, he took further steps to make the pandemic’s outreached contacts of prisoners and relatives more colourful and active. Prevention and control measures adopted in timely manner were effective also in Hungary, as well in other Council of Europe member state. This study highlights the critical importance of fast and reasonable actions of international control bodies and the open and cooperative response of the national prison services.

The concept and current state of legal regulation on staffing of the State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine

Ukraine has been reforming the penitentiary system for several years in order to humanise and bring it in line with European standards, and even today, in the face of a full-scale Russian military invasion, the processes of transformation and improvement of this system in our country have not stopped, as evidenced by the emergence of an updated strategic course for further changes and development of the national penitentiary system. Over the past few years, important positive results have already been achieved on this path, but a number of problems remain unresolved, slowing down the reform process and the achievement of its goals.
 It has been noted that a proper transformation of the penitentiary system of Ukraine is impossible without improving the mechanism of the staffing of the State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine, the effectiveness of which, in turn, depends on the state of legal regulation of the social relations which are part of the above-mentioned staffing process. Scientific approaches to the definition of the concept of legal regulation, understanding of its essence, characteristic features and role in the organisation of public life have been considered. The author’s own definition of legal regulation of staffing of the State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine has been formulated. It has been emphasised that the central place in the regulation of relations concerning this staffing is assigned to administrative law, since these relations are mainly of a managerial nature.
 The state of legislative regulation on staffing of the State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine has been analysed and its problematic aspects have been highlighted. It has been noted that there are no clearly defined conceptual foundations for the organisation and implementation of staffing of the State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine at the legislative level. Attention has been drawn to the scattering of norms on the issues of the said staffing in legal acts of various levels. And the author presents his own vision of possible steps to improve the regulatory and legal framework for staffing the State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine.

Characterization of the national penitentiary system for the security of the Colombian State against the COVID-19 pandemic

El presente articulo se presenta paralelo a un contexto histórico de las incidencias ocasionadas por el COVID-19 y el impacto multidimensional en la seguridad nacional de Colombia, estableciendo un paralelo con pandemias anteriores con el fin de que el lector tenga un marco teórico y conceptual con respecto al tema, y que le permita comprender las múltiples consecuencias de este evento desde el enfoque judicial, penitenciario y carcelario del país. Se realizará un análisis que explica la manera en la que la sociedad contemporánea se ve afectada dentro de un marco multidimensional, especialmente en el personal privado de la libertad. Como alcance de la investigación, se plantean reflexiones que ha dejado este evento en materia penitenciaria y carcelaria en Colombia, pretendiendo mostrar al lector los aspectos positivos y negativos que se analizaron durante el presente documento en cuanto a su acción estatal y manejo.

Principles of penal law and problems of guaranteeing the rights of convicts

The article identifies and analyzes the problems of guaranteeing the rights of convicts in connection with the principles of penitentiary law. The author comes to the conclusion that not all general and special rights of convicts are guaranteed by the penitentiary legislation in accordance with the principles of penitentiary law. In order to implement the principle of humanism and prevent treatment that degrades human dignity, it is necessary to fix at the legislative level measures that prevent overcrowding of institutions of the penitentiary system. The article analyzes international and foreign experience in terms of developing communications of convicts sentenced to deprivation of liberty with the outside world. The necessity of increasing the number of long-term and short-term visits for persons serving sentences in ordinary and light conditions of correctional colonies is substantiated. Increasing the number of visits and telephone conversations for convicts with relatives will contribute to maintaining family ties and successful resocialization practices. It is proposed to include in the educational programs of the School for Preparation for Release in Correctional Institutions topics devoted to technologies for the restoration and development of socially useful ties of convicts. It is concluded that in the formation and implementation of the penitentiary policy, it is necessary to comply with the principles of national penitentiary law and the generally recognized principles of international law, as well as ensuring the compliance of penitentiary norms of the practice of their application with constitutional provisions.

A LOOK AT THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL STATE OF AFFAIRS RECOGNIZED BY THE SUPREME COURT OF BRAZIL

Approaching factors of multiple orders and touching the national Penitentiary and Prison System is to seek to understand the roots and constraints of the formal and legal structure assumed by penal establishments that, today, are recognized as an “Unconstitutional State of Things” due to decision, in 2020, in the Argument of Non-compliance with Fundamental Precept n. 347 at the Honorable Court of the Federative Republic of Brazil. First of all, here we have bibliographical research (supported by literature of political and legal classics, eg, Immanuel Kant, Norberto Bobbio), documental ( vg Constitutions of 1824 and 1988, angular and underlyingly supported) and jurisprudential (Arguição de Descumprimento of Fundamental Precept - ADPF n. 347 sustained in a jusphilosophical construct), with a qualitative and interdisciplinary focus, on the recognition of the "Unconstitutional State of Things" to fall on the Prison System in Brazil with a view to critically and reflexively understanding the prison environment and the vectors that affirm the “state of affairs”.

Tuberculosis in the Brazilian prison system: scenarios via Joinpoint, from 2007 to 2019

This study describes and compares tuberculosis (TB) data among persons deprived of liberty and the general Brazilian population, from 2007 to 2019, using the Joinpoint tool to observe changes in trends. This study focuses on women and older adults, for HIV testing, and on the number of detainees according to prison capacity. This is a retrospective, quantitative, and analytical study, which uses methods of regression of time series data from secondary data of unrestricted access collected from the Brazilian Information System for Notifiable Diseases (SINAN), Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), and from analytical reports made available by the Brazilian National Penitentiary Department (DEPEN). The results show a considerably higher increase in the prevalence of TB in persons deprived of liberty in all perspectives analyzed; increased HIV testing; and a debatable trend of stability in the number of detainees according to prison capacity. When analyzing trends in prevalence, services, and determinants, it is curious to see the temporal non-coincidence in most cases. Clearly, national policies against TB do not have the same effect within prisons and even the National Policy for Comprehensive Health Care for People Deprived of Liberty in the Prison System (PNAISP) showed restricted effects in view of the health situation herein analyzed. Despite working with secondary data of variable reliability, comparisons were reached that can impact health decisions and actions. Although lacking complete and definitive answers, it was possible to launch a new point-of-view on the evolution of questions for which reflection is essential.

Qualification by the European Court of Human Rights of Degrading Treatments in Penitentiary Institutions

The authors examines the legal positions formulated by the European Court of Human Rights in relation to the compliance of Russian legislation and the practice of its application with the criteria of inadmissibility of cruel and humiliating treatment of convicts. Despite the termination of Russia's cooperation with European inter-state human rights bodies, the long experience of interaction with them has made it possible to identify certain shortcomings in the national penitentiary system and outline ways to eliminate them. A number of decisions of the European Court of Human Rights have been creatively interpreted in Russian legislation, and this has contributed to improving the legal status of persons sentenced to imprisonment. Based on a critical analysis of the key negative characteristics of the penal enforcement system, the authors identified the main directions of the impact of the decisions of the interstate human rights body on the formation of a new penal enforcement policy that contributes to improving the protection of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of citizens serving a sentence of imprisonment. To date, the relevance of this has remained, although the legal positions of the European Court of Human Rights are not and have never been sources of Russian law. The improvement of penitentiary legislation is a significant direction of the criminal policy of the state, therefore, the author's conclusions are of interest for rule-making activities.

Проект учреждения объединенного типа по положениям Концепции развития УИС до 2030 года

Federation until 2030 on the creation of a united type institution, an attempt was made to develop a model of such a correctional institution. The study addresses the issue of creating the legal and organizational foundations for the functioning of a united institution. To fix any phenomenon at the legal level, first of all, a theoretical model should be created, its scientific justification should be proposed. At the same time, both in the national penitentiary legislation and in the foreign one, there are already elements of the model of the united type institutions proposed by the Concept for the development of the penitentiary system. At the Russian Federation legislative level, a change in the correctional institution type is provided, either by increasing the rights and freedoms scope of the convict, or by reducing it. Statistical data confirm the practical implementation of these institutions, in connection with which there is a need for the sites presence of a colony-settlement and a prison as the design model part of a united type institution. The model of the united type institution could be supplemented by correctional colonies without distinguishing their regimes, but with the allocation of conditions for serving sentences within one correctional colony. Also, in the proposed model, it is necessary to provide for the placement of a pre-trial detention center, which will ensure a consistent corrective working process with persons who have committed a crime. As for the site creation for juvenile convicts, it raises doubts. Since the specificity of the special contingent in the form of juvenile convicts implies a separate content from adult convicts. The most optimal idea seems to be about a single complex of correctional institutions for persons who have committed a crime before they reach the age of eighteen, which is a combination of a pre-trial detention center, educational and correctional colonies on the same territory. The model of a united type institution can be structurally represented as follows: pre-trial detention center; Correctional Facility; a room in a prison regime; the colony area.

O INSTITUTO DO ESTADO DE COISAS INCONSTITUCIONAL E SUA COMPATIBILIDADE COM A ORDEM JURÍDICA BRASILEIRA BALANÇO DAS MEDIDAS CAUTELARES FIXADAS PELO STF NA ADPF 347

The object of this article is to research ADPF 347, analyzing the decision, in a precautionary measure determined 6 years ago, in which the Federal Supreme Court (STF) recognized the unconstitutional state of affairs (ECI) in the national penitentiary system . As the ECI constitutes a structural decision modality, an incursion will be made into the structural measures created to implement the decision handed down by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 which found racial segregation in the school system unconstitutional. As the ECI is a jurisprudential construction of the Constitutional Court of Colombia, can such an institute be successfully applied in Brazil? To this end, a brief digression will be carried out on the political, social and legal context of the country where the ECI was created. In addition, the impact of ADPF 347 on the prison system will be evaluated. Has care been taken to create a supervisory mechanism for the measures determined by the STF? Continuing, the need for the ECI to be used within a context of dialogic activism will be defended, that is, priority should be given to flexible decisions constructed in a negotiated manner between the public agencies and civil society entities involved, in order to obtain the greater legitimacy and effectiveness of structural measures.

A cautionary tale for health education initiatives in vulnerable populations: Improving nutrition in Haiti prisons.

Prisons in low-income countries have barriers to providing adequate nutrition to the incarcerated. This perspective discusses a quality improvement program with health education to improve nutrition provided to men in two prisons in Haiti. Incarcerated men in the National Penitentiary in Port Au Prince and the prison in Mirebalais were the focus of the program. A culturally competent educational intervention was delivered to the prison cooks. Program evaluation included a baseline and a follow-up assessment in 2021 and 2022 in both prisons. Calories, body composition, and nutrition were assessed at both time points. Among 1,060 men assessed in the baseline time period, the mean number of calories per day was 571. Further, 62.5% had a vitamin C intake insufficient to prevent scurvy and 91.6% had vitamin B1 insufficient to prevent beriberi. In the follow-up period, caloric intake decreased to a mean of 454 per day (p < 0.001). The proportion of incarcerated men who had insufficient vitamin C and vitamin B1 to prevent disease increased in the follow-up period. The caloric and nutritional intake of incarcerated men in Haitian prisons is poor and is getting worse. The educational intervention with the cooks was not successful due to civil and political strife in the low-income country of Haiti. Standard interventions to improve nutrition need to consider the social context for accessing food.

The comorbidity of diabetes-depression and its association with disability amongst elderly prison inmates.

Objectives: The objective of the study was to verify the strength of association of depression as a comorbidity of diabetes with the presence of six types of disability in the elderly in prison.Material and method: Cross-sectional association study based on a secondary analysis of the 2016 Peru National Penitentiary Census. The population were older adults, who were held in prisons in Peru. Inmates 60 years of age or older, and both sexes were included. The response variables were the six types of permanent disability. The exposure variables were the self-report of diabetes, depression and the comorbidity of depression with diabetes diagnosed by a health professional. The sample was constituted by 2. 658 older adults.Results: There was an increase in the probability of presenting the six disabilities analyzed due to the presence of comorbid diabetes with depression (p <0.05). The measure of greatest strength of association is for the disability to relate OR(a) 10.23, followed by the disability to move OR(a) 6.12 and the lowest strength of association found was for the hearing impairment OR(a) 2.80.Discussion: A significant increase was found in the probability of presenting the six disabilities analyzed due to the presence of comorbid diabetes with depression compared to suffering from only one of these conditions or not suffering from them.

ПОТЕНЦІАЛ ТРЕНІНГОВОЇ ТЕХНОЛОГІЇ ПІДВИЩЕННЯ КВАЛІФІКАЦІЇ ПЕНІТЕНЦІАРНОГО ПЕРСОНАЛУ

Today everything is changing very rapidly, requires the formation of modern professional competencies from specialists in all spheres of society, including such an important area as the penitentiary one, which in its turn is responsible for maintaining the appropriate level of public security. Education throughout life plays a key role in the process of formation and improving the professional competence of penitentiary personnel. It is lifelong learning, which includes the system of in-service training, that can meet the needs of professionals in acquiring the best professional skills for the next days. Filling the penitentiary personnel training system with new content is one of the main tasks of the Penitentiary System Reform Strategy for the period up to 2026, as well as the requirement that the professional training of national penitentiary specialists meet international standards of law enforcement and criminal and executive training. This influenced the vector choice of innovation of the professional development process of penitentiary personnel on the basis of the institution of higher education of the specialized direction – the Academy of the State Penitentiary Service. The aim of the study is to reveal the effectiveness of training technology in the process of improving the skills of penitentiary personnel through the prism of critical thinking and creativity in acquiring modern professional competencies by participants in the innovative educational process in the system of “teacher – student”. The methodology is based on modern provisions of pedagogical science – andragogy and law which reflects the relationship of methodological approaches to the study of the acquisition of modern professional skills by penitentiary personnel of the State Criminal and Executive Service of Ukraine (hereinafter SCES of Ukraine). Scientific novelty. The performed researches allowed to reveal the potential and role of training technology in the formation of the latest knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for solving various complex tasks in the professional activity of the SCES personnel of Ukraine in the conditions of advanced training. Conclusions. The results of the research confirmed the author’s opinion on the importance, role and impact of training technology on the level of professional development of the SCES personnel of Ukraine. Conducting training sessions in the form of actual training allows to take into account the principles of such scientific approaches as systematic and practice-oriented, motivate the teacher-trainer to conduct training sessions at a high methodological level, encourage students to take an active part in training sessions and further improve their professional knowledge, skills and abilities throughout life. Conducting training sessions in the form of various trainings promotes the timely renewal of professional competence, professional growth and development of new competencies of the State Criminal and Executive Service personnel of Ukraine and affects the efficiency of their performance of service and professional activities. Key words: competence, professional competence, training, training technology, penitentiary personnel.

International Standards of Penitentiary Activity: Impact on the Development of the Penitentiary Activity of the CIS Countries

Overcrowding in prisons is a common problem that affects many countries. It is difficult to define this term because there is no single internationally accepted standard. This article presents a comparative study of international standards for the activities of doctors in penitentiary institutions as an integral part of international standards of penitentiary activity. The authors investigated the methods and the degree of their impact on the penitentiary legislation of the Russian Federation and other CIS countries. The conclusion is drawn about the positive role of such standards in improving the national penitentiary legislation in order to increase the level of medical care for prisoners.