Some Problems That Arise When Applying Incentive Measures to Convicts

The article examines the problems related to the legal regulation of incentive measures and their application in penitentiary practice. The legal incentives existing in the Russian penal enforcement legislation, represented by incentive and a number of other norms, are not a fully integrated and consistent system. Only certain criteria for assessing the personality and behavior of a person sentenced to imprisonment are fixed, there is no systematization of them, there is no unified approach to their formulation, they are mainly evaluative (or too general. As a result of the conducted research, the author came to the conclusion that it is necessary to expand the list and disclose the content of the criteria for the correction of convicts in order to ensure their uniform interpretation by the law enforcement officer. This will make it possible to use the measure of encouragement in which the convict will be most interested and the application of which will help correctional officers achieve maximum correctional and educational impact.