FORCED LABOR AS A TYPE OF PUNISHMENT: ISSUES OF PREVENTION AND ENFORCEMENT

Abstract

The article examines the criminal-legal and criminal-executive aspects of punishment in the form of forced labor. The problematic points in the assessment of the place of forced labor in the system of punishments, the punitive content of punishment and the order of its appointment are determined. The contradiction of the order of application of forced labor with the general principles of sentencing is revealed. The article analyzes some issues of execution and serving of forced labor, identifies the problems of legal regulation of the procedure for implementing punishment, in particular, related to the involvement of convicts in labor. The common features of the execution and serving of forced labor with the order of execution and conditions of serving of imprisonment in colonies-settlements are revealed. Some changes in the normative-legal acts of both legislative and subordinate nature are proposed.