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 issue of modernizing Ukraine’s penitentiary system, which is currently in a state of crisis, is highly relevant. One potential solution involves attracting private capital to reform penitentiary institutions.
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