Principles of Organizing Penitentiary Supervision by the Prosecutor's Office

Penitentiary supervision is a separate type of prosecutor's supervision carried out within the framework of the relevant sectors. It is based on the key principles of organizing prosecutor's supervision: the unity of the prosecutor's system, centralization, independence, legality and publicity of its activities, as well as on the organizational principles: delimitation of competence and powers by zones and objects. The main issues of the structure of penitentiary supervision are resolved at the level of regional prosecutor's offices according to the zone and object principle, taking into account the priority of territories in organizing prosecutor's supervision. Organizing of penitentiary supervision is based on the general principles of the organization and activities of the prosecutor's office, taking into account the specifics of supervision over the legality of compulsory isolation - certain features of its implementation due to the broad subordinate normative legal regulation and the special composition of the bodies and officials of the prosecutor's office who exercise it. In this regard, it is necessary to have significant specialization in the implementation of prosecutor's supervision activities, which is an additional argument for the functioning of specialized prosecutor's offices to supervise the observance of laws in correctional institutions, which also presupposes prosecutors' deep immersion in a separate regulatory legal array. The specialization should not be radical, with significant structural changes in the existing prosecutor's activities. It seems sufficient to create appropriate working conditions in the relevant prosecutor's offices by, for instance, releasing prosecutors from other non-core duties.

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