THE PECULIARITIES OF ENSURING THE CONDITIONS OF SERVING A SENTENCE IN PRISONS IN THE UK (FOR EXAMPLE, BELMARSH PRISON)
The article is devoted to modern problems of execution of sentences in the form of imprisonment in prisons of great Britain. The study of the experience of the country which was one of the developers of international prison standards where strict observance of the rights and legitimate interests of prisoners is enshrined is certainly necessary. The author notes that at the present stage in the prison system of great Britain there are the same problems as in the Penitentiary System of Russia. The study is based on the analysis of the activities of the Belmarsh prison which is of particular interest, since it serves sentences of persons convicted of crimes of different degrees of severity, and within the same institu-tion, the prisoner, depending on the type of violation committed and the behavior can be moved to different regimes of punishment. Another feature of the institution is that it houses persons in pre-conviction detention. Analysis of the work of a particular correctional institution allowed the author to conclude that compliance with European requirements for security and compliance with the regime, as well as living conditions of prisoners is not a guarantee of flawless effective work of the Penal System. Any penitentiary system is directly affected by crises that occur both within any institution and in the state as a whole, changes in the conditions of financing, which leads to problems in the execution of sentences. Despite this, it should be emphasized that the openness of the penitentiary system of the country, the involvement in the work of penitentiary institutions in addition to the state structures of public organizations helps to work more effectively the system as a whole and has the consequence of improving the conditions of detention of prisoners and strict observance of their rights.