The article justifies the need to improve the institution of detention of a suspect in criminal proceedings in Ukraine. This is due to the need to implement European standards, which are set out in the European Convention on Human Rights and implemented in the practice of the European Court of Human Rights.
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