The article deals with the international and European standards declaring the rights, freedoms and legal interests of convicts. Today a marked factor making a systemic negative impact on all spheres of economic, social, political and spiritual life of the society has become transnational crime; its developing and spreading aren’t limited (controlled) by the state borders. A significant role to counter the transnational crime belongs to completion mechanism in penitentiaries in various countries. In the given situation international law acts dealing with the problems of convicts’ treatment are of great importance. The development of the international penitentiary community is impossible without appealing to the issue of the legal status of convicts. The aim of the given article is to examine the main international and European documents regulating the legal status of convicts as well as the determination of their role in the formation of the modern penal legislation of Russia. Taking into consideration requirements of the international law acts, the authors of the article consider the fixation of the legal status of convicts in the given documents to be essential to improve the guarantees of the rights and legal interests of convicts as well as to achieve correction of convicts all over the world.
rights, freedoms, legal interests, convicts, crime, international law acts, standards, punishment, criminal-executive (penal) law, legal status
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