Eastern Europe Type of Penal System

Review. The article summarizes the Eastern European penal system, characterized by the search for a balanced approach to solving the dilemma between ensuring public safety and the observance of human rights, prison management authorities on the jurisdiction of the respective ministries of Justice (except Hungary), quite a high rate of prisoners, usually the minimum number of foreign convicts and a slight excess of the regulatory framework under the population density in correctional facilities. The implementation of public-private partnership projects in the functioning of prisons (Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Czech Republic) and the perspective partial privatization of prisons (Romania and Slovenia) primarily involve public finance problems of penitentiary institutions. It is noted that prisons and controls of this type have many common features, they cooperate in family prison justice projects, and implement national research ethics (NHREs) and "ethics of attitudes and behaviour (EABs) projects. The general trend favors reducing the length of deprivation of liberty, a gradual increase in prison space and the conditions of detention. The author notes the extension of the following practices: applied means of correction in part of general education and vocational training is increasing, the use of individual programs serving the sentence and social reintegration, training psychiatric technology, as well as the characteristics of the treatment of certain categories of prisoners (drug users, women, persons convicted of sexual offences, etc.) The author draws attention to the violations of the rights of convicted persons including violence and abuse, significant shortcomings in the application of means of correction of persons serving sentences or other deficiencies in the Organization of correctional services despite all the active measures of implementing progressive standards covering the treatment of prisoners The author concludes that in the face of ambiguous patriotic reform penal system the analysis of Eastern European penal system causes a natural scientific interest in further comparative-typological study of the entire European penal plan of actions.

Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Eastern Europe, the Directorate General of prisons in Albania, the European Committee against torture, the penal colony, international standards, the national administration of penitentiaries of Romania, preparing to release, criminal-executive system, life imprisonment, the prison service in Poland, the level of Security private prison

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