Development of Russian penitentiary supervision before the Penitentiary Code adoption

The modern Prison System reforming process, its gradual approach to the European standards of sentencing and law providing during imprisonment set to arrange optimal methods of appropriate control. One of such methods is the developing penitentiary supervising, which is a special form of public prisoners' rights providing during their isolation undertaken by different public agents (courts, NGOs, etc.) with the principal role of the prosecutor's officials. In this article the public agents maintaining the provisional and pre-trial detention as well as sentencing are mentioned as penitentiary structures. The first stage of the penitentiary supervision developing process executed in 1990s is shown in this article. At that time the main legal base constructing the principal features of national penitentiary supervision was founded. The adoption of the Prosecution Law of 1992 de facto suffered prosecutor office since it lost the monopoly and its opportunities in the imprisonment control sphere as compared with the ones possessed during the Soviet period narrowed. The subsequent adoption of the RF Constitution of 1993 and some other federal laws promoted the developing of provisional and pre-trial detention by courts. The Prosecution Law of 1995 continued prosecution supervising contracting trends in compliance with the constitutional and modified penal law requirements.

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