Multi-regime correctional facilities: causes, classification, prospects

The detachment system in the organizational managerial aspect is expanding and enlarging, as an experiment is developing in a number of correctional facilities of the territorial bodies of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia to introduce a model of correctional centres for convicts. The centres are formed from two or three detachments of convicts that, as a rule, are accommodated in one residential building or in an isolated section. However, the Concept of the Development of the Penitentiary Service until 2020 has retained a point that placing convicts and their simultaneous presence in multi-lodging dormitories makes it impossible to prevent undesirable contacts between them. Thus, the current principles of separate detention of convicts do not allow to effectively solve this contradiction. In this regard, the author believes that the new correctional centres, though being experimental, should take into account the provisions of the abolished theoretical models of colonies-settlements with the usual and intensive supervision the RF Federal Penitentiary Service developed in 2011. According to these models, the main accommodation of convicts was a room for 6 people, not a dormitory. Thus, over the past 15 years, Russian correctional facilities have made a significant step towards multi-regime functioning. It seems that their multi-regime functioning should form the basis of a new hybrid type of a correctional institution. For this, the typology of prison should be decisive.

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