The article formulates the author`s definition of the progressive system: “The progressive system is a complex intersectoral institution of criminal and criminal and executive law, including several independent institutions, in the process of applying which the legal status of the convict changes depending on the degree of its correction in the direction of either expansion or restriction of the volume of his rights”.

It is noted that in the current legislation, with the establishment of a general rule on various conditions for serving a sentence within one correctional institution, the progressive system has acquired a completely finished form and can be considered the basis of all punitive and educational impact on convicts.

The need for a more detailed classification of positively characterized convicts has been also actualized. In this case, each positive degree of behavior of convicts must correspond to certain conditions of detention and institutions of the progressive system, namely: upon reaching the 1st positive degree, the convict is kept in the usual conditions of a correctional institution (the institution of changing conditions of detention within one correctional institution); at the 2nd positive degree – transferred to lighter conditions of detention; at the 3rd positive degree – transferred to preferential conditions of detention; upon reaching the 4th positive degree – transferred to an institution of another type; at the 5th positive degree – the institution of replacement of punishment is applied; at the 6th positive degree – parole of the convicted person is possible.

A proposal regarding the release of the court from the function of changing the process of executing the sentence has been formulated, in order to entrust it to the supervisory commissions created at the correctional institution. The court will only appoint the type of punishment, and the execution of the court`s decision should be entrusted to the Committee of the Penitentiary System and the Supervisory Commission. In this case, the commission collectively decides on the application of all the institutions of the progressive system, up to the institution of parole.

The necessity of further improvement of legal regulation of the process of execution of punishments, alternative to imprisonment, according to the progressive system is substantiated.

Key words: criminal policy, humanization, deprivation of liberty, punishments alternative to imprisonment, progressive system of execution of imprisonment, conditions of detention, behavior of convicts.

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