Open AccessLegal basis for the activities of the Main Directorate of Places of Detention of the Ministry of Justice of the Provisional Government
Author(s) -
A. M. PETROV,
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A. Kiselev,
Е В Герасимова,
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Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ius publicum et privatum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2713-2811
DOI - 10.46741/2713-2811-2021-2-31-40
Subject(s) - prison , lawmaking , normative , government (linguistics) , christian ministry , political science , work (physics) , institution , economic justice , law , public administration , imprisonment , sociology , engineering , legislature , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics
The article reveals the legal foundations of the activities of the Main Directorate of Places of Detention of the Ministry of Justice created by the Provisional Government of Russia on April 26, 1917. The authors examine in detail the process of drafting the General Prison Instruction by the General Directorate of Places of Detention. Its peculiarity was the fact that this work was delegated to employees of the penal system and prosecutors in a number of regions, therefore, the interests of prison staff and the problems they faced in practice were taken into account. As a result on the basis of local lawmaking the development of the main normative legal act regulating the regime and conditions for the execution of sentences in the country as a whole was carried out. The strategy for preparing a new version of the General Prison Instruction with the help of the initiatives of the regional prison officials was of great importance. At present the problem of improving the institution of social patronage over released convicts is urgent. The accumulated experience of introducing measures of public patronage and patronage during the period of the Provisional Government’s activity should be studied in detail with a view to possible borrowing into the activities of the bodies of the Russian penal system.