Prospects for improving the inter-sectoral regulation of parole from serving a sentence in the context of fighting corruption

A number of shortcomings of inter-sectoral regulation, which create the basis for an extremely wide discretion of the parties involved in decision-making on granting a parole to a convicted person are identified in the article, taking into account the analysis of the provisions of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the Penal Code of the Russian Federation and the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation as well as the attitude of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on this issue. The author draws the conclusion on the necessity to adjust the criminal, criminal procedure and penal legislation by clarifying the powers and reducing the discretion of relevant parties (especially penal institutions officers, judges and prosecutors) at various stages of serving a sentence, as well as specifying criteria of this type of early release from serving a sentence to increase the effectiveness of fighting corruption when deciding on granting a parole to a convicted person.