INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS
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This paper analyzes the rules of the most important international documents in the field of treatment of convicts and the issues of their implementation in penal legislation. The necessity of transitioning to a more cultured and humane method of executing sentences in the form of imprisonment is substantiated.
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