The issues of legal regulation of educational work with persons sentenced to deprivation of liberty in light of the Federal law «Оn probation in the Russian Federation»

In the article, the authors study some aspects of the normative legal regulation of educational work with convicts to imprisonment through the prism of the institution of probation. The attention is drawn to numerous inaccuracies and omissions that characterize the normative legal consolidation of issues of educational work with persons sentenced to imprisonment, in particular: the concept of educational work is not formulated, the purpose of educational measures and their tasks are not defined; directions and forms of educational work, criteria for its effectiveness are not specified; the place of educational work among other means of correcting convicts is not determined. The above allows us to conclude that so far the legal norms on educational work with convicts sentenced to deprivation of liberty at the level of the Penal Enforcement Code of the Russian Federation have remained practically unchanged. The conclusion is substantiated that the effectiveness of regulation of educational work depends on a number of factors: the degree of its normativity, the timely and optimal elimination of possible quasi-norms without an independent regulatory nature. It is noted that the development of normative regulation of educational impact issues has acquired a practice-oriented character.