Radochina, T.N. Private prisons in the penal system in England and Wales

Abstract: The history of the idea formation of bringing the services of private business to the sphere of penal activities in Great Britain (1980s); creation of the theoretical and legal framework for the private prison sector, the beginning of the experiment on the commercial management of first prisons, the development of new forms of commercial forms and mechanisms in the penal system of England and Wales. The scope of the subject also includes the statistical data relating to the penal system in England and Wales, official certificates and documents about the positive and negative results of using private businesses in the penal system, debates and opinions from well-known political figures, scientists and employees of Justice, thereby creating a fairly complete picture of the current state of this field of legal relations in England and Wales. The methodology of the study, along with the scientific methods (induction, deduction, etc.), includes the whole complex of methods and techniques that have traditionally been used in criminology and criminal law enforcement. In particular, this means a historical and comparative legal analysis, a formal-logical one, a statistical one and a dynamic one; concerning the sociological methods, the method of studying documents was used. The scientific novelty of this article is aimed, first of all, at the reflection of the problem of using the services of the private sector in the new modern conditions, including the analysis of the relevant 20-year experience of England and Wales. The novelty is contained in the identity, reflected by the author, of the originality of formation and development of this institution in relation to the prevailing conditions in Great Britain. The identified contradictions and results of this experiment are also new; they have been received from English scientific and official sources, and have been directly studied by the author in the process of writing the article. The author’s conclusions are directly related to the possibility and practicability of using private business in the penal system of the Russian Federation and to encourage theorists, legal scholars and practitioners to develop new projects for the development of the penal system of our country.

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