The article presents the foreign experience of the use of coercive measures aimed at suppressing the illegal behavior of convicts and persons in custody. An important role in the legal regulation of the issues under consideration belongs to the normative legal acts of a recommendatory nature adopted by the United Nations, as well as international legal acts of penitentiary legislation. The content of the requirements for the use of force, special means and firearms by the personnel of penitentiary departments in relation to convicts allowed us to identify the basic principles that must necessarily be taken into account in national legislative acts. The authors make a number of proposals for improving Russian legislation
the penal enforcement system, staff of penitentiary departments, suppression of offenses, measures of state coercion
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