Legal Status of Prisoners Sentenced to Deprivation of Freedom during Forced Feeding
Abstract
Forced feeding of convicts sentenced to imprisonment is one of the forms of interaction between administration of correctional institution and the prisoner. Social relations that develop in connection with the forced feeding of convicts sentenced to imprisonment are theoretically poorly studied and have numerous shortcomings, primarily stemming from their legislative regulation (essence of incarcerated convicts' forced feeding wasn't not clearly determined; form of the refuse of Incarcerated convicts from food also wasn't established; appropriate legislative regulation of legal status of convicts, appropriate officials of the correctional institution and etc. is absent). In fact, only part 4 of article 101 of the Penal Code of Russian Federation is the legislative basis for forced feeding of sentenced convicts, in which the grounds for the use of forced feeding include the refusal of the convict to eat and the threat to his life, and the conditions of his appointment — the presence of medical evidence. In connection with the presence of deficiencies in their regulation of Penal Code of Russia and other normative acts, prison administration is not always able to respond adequately to such actions of convicts. In connection with the defects of their regulation in the Penal Code of Russia and other normative legal acts, the prison administration is not always able to respond adequately to such infringing actions of convicts. Comprehensive series of practical and legal measures (in the context of achievement of correction and prevention of commission of new crimes as the purposes of the penal legislation) aimed on the improvement of incarcerated convicts' forced feeding were formulated: a list of subjects that implement it; simultaneously improvement of the legal status regulation of prisoners and the subjects of its application was proposed; it is recommended to divide it on four stages each of which will have its own boundary and specific area of legal relations; was proposed to improve the recovery of costs associated with refusal of food from the convicts.
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