The article states that the criminal-executive system of Ukraine is not only a system for holding convicts and detainees. It is a powerful component of state policy in the field of punishment and probation, involving significant human resources capable of ensuring order and the conditions for execution/serving of sentences and of restoring the legal and social status of convicted persons as full members of society.
The article reveals the legislative innovations ensuring the transformation of Ukraine’s criminal-executive system into a penitentiary system of a new type by addressing the following tasks: the credibility of the need for the development of the transformation of Ukraine’s criminal-executive legislation into penitentiary legislation and the nature of its consequences; evaluation of the reasons for the insufficient effectiveness of the legal support for the activities of the bodies and institutions of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine’s penal system; constant modernization of Ukraine’s crim