The features and rules of convicts staying in the quarantine, diagnostic and distribution area of penitentiary institutions are defined. The analysis of the criminal-executive legislation regulating the stay of convicts in the area of quarantine, diagnostic and distribution has been made. The main normative legal acts regulating this issue are the Criminal-Executive Code of Ukraine of 2003 and the Regulations on the Quarantine, Diagnostic and Distribution Area, approved by the order of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine dated November 4, 2013.

The Criminal-Executive Code as the basic legal document of the highest legal force regulating the legal relationship in the field of execution of sentences in Art. 95 determines that convicted persons placed in a quarantine, diagnostic and distribution area, during a period of fourteen days undergo a complete medical examination for the detection of infectious, somatic and mental illnesses, as well as primary psychological and pedagogical and other study.

It is noted that the individualization and differentiation of the execution of criminal punishment as the principles of execution of punishment differ from each other, and are important in the secondary classification of convicts.

The main aspects of the development and implementation of an individual program of social work with convicts kept in the quarantine, diagnostic and distribution area are clarified. Taking into account the peculiarities of the presence of convicts in the quarantine, diagnostic and distribution area, it is proposed its author’s definition. Thus, the quarantine, diagnostic and distribution area is a structural unit of the penitentiary institution, which is created for the purpose of primary psychological and pedagogical study of the personality of newly arrived prisoners, their complete medical examination for the detection of infectious, somatic and mental illnesses.

Keywords: medical examination, psychodiagnostics, psychological and pedagogical study, criminological characteristic, criminal and legal characteristic, program of social and educational work, differentiation of execution of punishment, individualization of execution of punishment, quarantine, diagnostic and distribution area.

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