PRIME LAW IN RUSSIA OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE XIX CENTURY
The author explores the features of the formation and development of prison law in Russia in the first half of the nineteenth century. The relevant normative legal acts are analyzed, and first of all a number of prison instructions adopted in 1804, 1819, etc. It is noted that in prison instructions for the first time on an official level the humanistic principles of the attitude of prison staff to prisoners are fixed. At the same time, archaic rules were preserved (for example, they had feathers, paper and ink, and only books of religious content could be read). Nevertheless, the prison regulations, compiled in the first half of the Х1Х century. Prison law, contributed to the progressive development of penitentiary law in general.