LEGAL GUARANTEES OF ENSURING THE RIGHTS, FREEDOMS AND LEGITIMATE INTERESTS OF CITIZENS IN THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE STATE CRIMINAL EXECUTIVE SERVICE OF UKRAINE

Abstract

In the article, based on current legislation in the conditions of European integration, the legal guarantees of ensuring the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of citizens in the institutions of the State Criminal Enforcement Service of Ukraine considered. The research carried out taking into account the achievements of the general theory of the state and law, international, criminal, criminal law and sociology. The dialectical method of learning social processes and socio-legal phenomena became the basis of the research methodology. Private scientific methods were used: system analysis, formal-logical, comparative-legal, system-structural. The subject of the research is: norms of administrative, constitutional, international, criminal executive, criminal and criminal procedural law, which regulate social relations in the sphere of execution of punishments; law enforcement activities of institutions and bodies that carry out punishments in the form of deprivation of liberty of the criminal enforcement system of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. The legal status of those sentenced to deprivation of liberty considered as a set of legally significant provisions established by the state in the criminal-executive norms, which determine the place of the convicted in the social structure of society and persons who are in correctional institutions. It is expedient to understand it as a set of natural and acquired legal capabilities. The legal interest of the convicts proposed to be understood as the right established and protected by the state to realize the aspirations of the convicts to own significant goods, which depends on the fulfillment of the conditions established by law. In order to respect the rights of those sentenced to imprisonment, it is necessary to have a regulatory framework and humane practice of application, as well as measures to implement international human rights acts in penitentiary institutions.