Legislation of the post-soviet states regarding walks of the convicts
The subject of the study is the penal legislation of the post-Soviet countries. The following research methods were used in this article: general scientific such as analysis and synthesis, systemic-structural, formal-logical and specific scientific - comparative-legal, linguistic, axiological. The study was conducted on several criteria (parameters), reflecting various aspects of the right of convicts to walk. Among these are: localization of the statutory recognition of this right, the relationship between walking and physical exercises in the open air, the duration of the walks, the time and place of their holding, the increase in the time of walking as an incentive, and the possibility of early termination of the walk in case of violation of the established rules by convicts. The following research results were obtained - principal points of the right of convicts to walk in penal institutions of the CIS are based on the provisions of the CIS Model Correctional Code, and, except for the Moldovan Executive Code, are virtually identical. On the contrary, the regulation of walks in the Codes (laws) of the other three countries of the post-Soviet territory (Georgia, Latvia, and Estonia) is very different from the CIS Codes and each other. Certain provisions of Correctional Codes of post-Soviet countries deserve attention and additional study as possible additions to the Correctional Code of the Russian Federation. Such aspects include the inclusion of the right to physical exercise as the basic right of convicts, as well as the possibility of physical exercises in the open air during walks; a guaranteed minimum duration of the walk for all categories of convicts, including violators, as a general rule.