Solidarity of the penitentiary community as a special type of social and communicative relations

Changes in socio-economic relations in our country have significantly affected the intensity of information communication. This resulted in a serious transformation of social relations. The changes also affected such a specific social community as the penitentiary community, which is traditionally considered as an example of stability of social and communicative ties. Such processes were a factor that changed the social structure of the entire penitentiary society. Against this background, completely different signs of unification of the penitentiary community began to appear, which were previously considered unacceptable from the position of informal relations. The paper dwells upon the basic principles of solidarity in the penitentiary community, due to the current state of the social and communication sphere. In this regard, the problem of self-identification of representatives of the penitentiary community is analyzed. In conclusion, the assessment is given of the qualitative state of solidarity of the penitentiary community based on modern socio-communicative ties.