Peculiarities of the Legal Status of Convicts Serving Their Sentencesin Correctional Colonies

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problems of implementation of the legal status of prisoners sentenced to imprisonment serving their sentence in correctional coloniest. Such basic problems as control of convicts’ behavior, reasons for giving the right to reside outside the colony are depicted. The problems connected with changing the type of penitentiary facility for the convicts are also analyzed.

Keywords

• convicts sentenced to prison
• correctional colony
• changing of the type of penitentiary facility
• legal status of convicts
• resocialisation
• correctional institutions