Abstract:
У статті розкрито питання інституційного реформування кримінально-виконавчої системи
і її трансформації в пенітенціарну систему. Доведено, що wе реформування є одним із пріоритетів
діяльності Міністерства юстиції України. Серед актуальних теоретичних і практичних питань
реформування кримінально-виконавчої системи і її трансформації в пенітенціарну систему
виокремлено: використання в теорії і практиці терміна пенітенціарна система; вплив засобів
виправлення і ресоціалізації на процес реформування кримінально-виконавчої системи і її
трансформації в пенітенціарну систему; оцінка стану матеріально-побутового та медикосанітарного забезпечення засуджених у місцях несвободи. Сформульовано авторське визначення
пенітенціарної системи України. The issue of institutional reform of the criminal enforcement
system and its transformation into a penitentiary system was described in the article. It has been proven that
this reformation is one of the priorities of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.
Current theoretical and practical issues of reforming the criminal-executive system and its
transformation into a penitentiary system are highlighted: the use in theory and practice of the term
"penitentiary system”; the influence of means of correction and resocialization on the process of reforming
the criminal enforcement system and its transformation into a penitentiary system; assessment of the state
of material, household and health care of convicts in places of imprisonment.
The author's definition of the penitentiary system of Ukraine is formulated – it is a state institution
that is empowered to form and implement state policy in the penitentiary sphere, by involving in this process
relevant state and non-state bodies and institutions with the aim of returning to society persons who have
committed criminal offenses as law-abiding citizens. The material described above in this article made it
possible to formulate the following conclusions.
In order to improve the reform of the criminal-executive system and its transformation into a
penitentiary system, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine is proposed to create a powerful and constructive
cooperation with domestic scientists, which will allow introducing innovative achievements of both
theoretical and practical direction into the activities of the bodies and institutions for the execution of
punishments. For this purpose, it is necessary to revive the scientific expert council.
It has been proven that the success of any reforms depends on the level of their perception by
people who rely on their implementation. And therefore, the reform of the criminal-executive system and
its transformation into a penitentiary system requires a change in professional training and retraining in
terms of finding a balance between the interests of staff and convicts.
The reform of the criminal-executive system and its transformation into a penitentiary system
must necessarily provide for the improvement of the conditions of detention of convicts, their material,
household and medical-sanitary support in places of imprisonment, since this process stimulates the latter
to correction, resocialization and reintegration into society.
The great importance for the reform of the criminal-executive system and its transformation into
a penitentiary system has the improvement of the system of encouraging convicts to law-abiding behavior
and resocialization through the introduction of a gradual change in the conditions of their detention, the
development and implementation of a system of criteria for assessing the degrees of correction of convicts,
and the establishment of effective interaction of bodies and institutions of execution system with subjects
of social patronage of persons released from places of imprisonment.
