Development of penitentiary supervision after the Penitentiary Code adoption

The modern Prison System reforming process, its gradual approach to the European standards of sentencing and law providing during imprisonment are setting 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 provision 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 analysis of the modern penitentiary process developingafter the 1996 Russian Penal Code adoption is shown in this article. At that time in spite of some 1995 Prosecutor's Act requirements, which determined the traditional prosecutor's methods on provisional and pre-trial detention and sentencing control with the help of further evolution of penal and other legislation, a new type of imprisonment conditions prosecutor supervising was established. It is penitentiary supervising. Its distinctive features were a more particular sphere and levels of supervision, trial-oriented approaches to executing prosecutor's power.

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