Internal affairs departments of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service: Concept and content of their functioning
In this article there is an analysis of the activity of how the Federal Penitentiary Service ensures the internal security. The main contents concerning the areas of the internal affairs departments of the Penal Enforcement System are formulated and disclosed: state asset protection, economic security, prevention and struggle against transgressions (crimes and offenses), committed by the personnel from the Penal Enforcement System. In this research there is an author's notion of what the internal affairs departments of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service are and there is also a disclosure of their competence.