Legislative innovations for ensuring the transformation of Ukraine's criminal-executive system into a penitentiary system of a new type

The article reveals the legislative innovations ensuring the transformation of Ukraine's criminal-executive system into a penitentiary system of a new type by addressing the following tasks: the credibility of the need for the development of the transformation of Ukraine’s criminal-executive legislation into penitentiary legislation and the nature of its consequences; evaluation of the reasons for the insufficient effectiveness of the legal support for the activities of the bodies and institutions of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine's penal system; constant modernization of Ukraine’s criminal-executive system as a legal instrument for transforming it into a penitentiary system. It is proven that the adoption of legislative innovations creates the prerequisites for the development and adoption of new penitentiary legislation (Fundamentals of Penitentiary Legislation of Ukraine, Law of Ukraine on the Penitentiary System, and the Penitentiary Code of Ukraine), as well as the establishment of new prisons in Ukraine based on the principles of state, municipal, and private sectors, which should be aimed at protecting the rights and freedoms of convicted individuals and detainees, in compliance with European penitentiary standards. An algorithm is proposed for improving the conditions of detention of convicts in the places of deprivation of liberty of the State Criminal-Executive Service of Ukraine. Given the subject of the research, it is proven that the implementation of legislative innovations is an optimistic direction for modernizing the entire criminal-executive system of Ukraine, as it involves not only scientific but also legislative support. Keywords: legislation, provision, transformation, criminal-executive system, penitentiary system, State Criminal-Executive Service of Ukraine, State Institution "Probation Center", personnel, junior and senior staff, convicts, places of deprivation of liberty, punishment, prison.