The Statutory Determination of Subjects Authorized to Initiate Cancellation of a Suspended Sentence Needs to Be Adjusted

The article focuses on the current practice of canceling probation on the basis of a submission filed with the court by a subject not authorized by law. Linking this law enforcement trend with the normative inconsistency that arose as a result of the reform of the penitentiary system in 2011, the authors propose to amend Art. 190 of the Penal Code of the Russian Federation, including among the subjects authorized to initiate the abolition of probation, not only the head of the penitentiary inspection, but also the heads of branches of the inspection, who actually goes to court after the enlargement in 2011 of the institutions of the penitentiary system.