Legal measures to prevent persons sentenced to imprisonment from committing crimes involving illicit trafficking narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances (based on the materials of the South Ural region)

This article deals with the legal measures to prevent persons convicted to imprisonment from wrongful acts concerning both non-medical use and distribution of drugs and psychotropic substances. Taking into account the specific nature of penitentiary facilities (based on the materials of the South Ural region, namely the Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, and Orenburg regions) it proposes a number of legal measures which can boost the anti-drug preventive work with the prisoners in order to neutralize the drug situation in prisons. Some of them are lowering the age of criminal liability under Articles 228 and 2281 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, applying as compulsory medical measures appropriate ambulatory medical drug treatment for prisoners with problems of drug addiction, and so on.