Abstract: The authors consider the issues of patriotic education of the employees of the correctional system. Special attention is paid to the building of such traits of character as fidelity to the oath and the call of duty, personal responsibility for the fate of the Fatherland, selflessness, readiness to self-sacrifice, fairness, incorruptibility, honesty, and a sense of duty. The research subject is the range of social relations in the sphere of patriotic education of the employees of the correctional system as an element of awareness-raising work. The improvement of patriotic education, awareness-raising work, and psychological support of the employees of the correctional system includes the set of legal, normative, organizational, methodological, research, and information measures. Patriotic education is the priority direction in the awareness-raising work with the personnel. The novelty of the study lies in the new vision of such directions of patriotic education in the correctional system as moral, historical and cultural, civic and patriotic, military and patriotic, sport and patriotic, which are based on educating the professional, competent, active employees of high moral standards. 

Abstract: The subject of the research includes legal and organization problems of combating corruption in the system of public service of the Russian Federation. The author studies the mechanisms and the assessment of corruption risks which appear pending the work of penal institutions’ officials. The author notes that the majority of corruption crimes in the penal system are connected with giving or accepting a bribe. The author notes a high level of abuse of power or authority by the officials of the Federal Penitentiary Service and abuse of resources which aren’t in their possession by means of decision-making or rejection to make a decision. The author uses the general philosophical methods, the traditional legal methods (formal-logical), and the methods used in special sociological research (statistical methods, expert assessments, etc.). The article analyzes the notion of corruption, the normative-legal base of combating corruption, the recent condition of corruption in the penal system, statistical data, corruption risks classification, the main types of corruption crimes committed by the officials of the penal system. The author offers the ways of corruption prevention in the penal system.