socially useful work; convicted person; imprisonment; correction and resocialization.

The legal nature of convicted persons` labor, its goals, tasks and regulation features

This article will examine the legal nature and highlight the problematic issues of involving convicts serving a term of imprisonment in socially useful work. The goals and tasks of socially useful work as a means of correction and resocialization of such convicts are disclosed. The article formulates proposals for improving the current criminal law enforcement in terms of legal regulation of the application of community service to convicts serving prison terms.