Foreign experience of ensuring the personal security of juvenile convicts

The organisation of interaction with public institutions abroad is an important direction in ensuring the personal security of minors in prisons. The advanced experience of foreign countries in this direction could serve as a basis for introducing changes into the existing penal legislation of Russia. The author believes that in this regard it would be advisable to think about the possibility of using foreign practice of attracting student and public organisations in the implementation by convicted juveniles of their right to personal security. Obviously, the potential of the Russian Orthodox Church is not sufficiently used in this direction. Foreign practice has shown the effectiveness of reconciliation programs of the victim and the perpetrator. The experience of attracting additional material resources is noteworthy. This would make it possible to create more comfortable conditions for convicts and employees in correctional facilities, equip them with modern security tools and increase the efficiency of the work of the relevant services. Unlike other regions of the world, Europe has a mechanism of supranational protection of the life and health of juvenile convicts by inspecting prisons and filing complaints. In most foreign countries, an important guarantee for ensuring the personal security of juvenile convicts is that the staff undergo special training. The personal security of convicts is maintained by measures of a general and special nature. In general, the foreign experience of ensuring the personal security of juvenile convicts can be successfully perceived by Russia while improving the activities of juvenile correctional facilities. In order to increase the effectiveness of using the foreign experience in question, cooperation with foreign penitentiary institutions, services, representatives of the penitentiary science should be actively developed.

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