PECULIARITIES OF STATE AND LEGAL STATUS OF PERSONS SENTENCED TO CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT
The article deals with the peculiarities of the implementation of the rights of persons sentenced to criminal penalties, their legal status during the execution of criminal punishment. Particular attention is paid to the electoral law of convicts, as the most discussed issue in science. The concept of political rights possessed by the citizens of the state is given. Due to their special status, convicts cannot fully exercise their right to vote, and the right to vote for convicts in accordance with the prohibition of the constitutional norm cannot be exercised at all. In accordance with the legislation in force, persons accused of committing crimes in pre-trial detention centres are not deprived of the right to vote. The emphasis is placed on the fact that convicted persons to other types of punishment not related to deprivation of liberty are not deprived of this right. In science today there is an active discussion of the issue of non-individualized deprivation of liberty of convicted persons of this political right. The features of realization of the right to Association of convicts to imprisonment, as well as the right of petitions are considered. There is a ban on other political rights, as the institutions and bodies of the penal system are regime territories. The article presents a comparative analysis with foreign practice.