Public monitoring of the activities of institutions and bodies that carry out criminal penalties: historical experience
An analysis of the historical experience of the functioning and development of public control over the activities of the institutions and bodies executing criminal punishment, showed that this form of control has proved its positive effect on the improvement of the activity in the direction of greater “openness” of the national prison system, the development in it of democratic principles that enhances the effectiveness of the correctional process in respect of persons deprived of their liberty, and the whole of Russia’s integration into the world with bschestvo. The article describes the features of the implementation of the control in different historical periods of development of Russian statehood. Author of the work believe that the presentation of the information in it will determine the most promising ways of further development of public control over the activities of the institutions and bodies executing criminal punishment now.