International experience of convicts applying to court for protection of their rights (regulatory regulation and the reasons for such appeals)

Subject of research: international experience of appeals of convicted persons and persons in custody for the protection of their rights to the judicial authorities of the states of which they were citizens (subjects). Purpose of research: to identify the main reasons for the appeals of persons in custody, as well as those serving sentences in the form of imprisonment in foreign countries, to the judicial authorities of the host countries for the protection of their rights. To use the obtained results as a comparison for the subsequent study of the reasons and grounds for the appeals of convicts serving criminal sentences in institutions of the penal enforcement system of the Russian Federation to the courts of general jurisdiction for the protection of their rights. Methods and objects of research: dialectical, systematic, logical and other methods of scientific cognition act as the methodological basis of the research. Main results of research: the analysis of international experience in the field of activities of institutions and bodies executing criminal penalties in foreign countries allowed us to identify certain reasons for appeals to the courts of convicts in places of deprivation of liberty in foreign countries. The study made it possible to reduce most of the reasons for the appeals of convicts to court into several groups that will be universal for almost any country.