GENERAL EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL TRAINING AS A MEANS OF CORRECTION AND RESOCIALIZATION OF CONVICTED PRISONERS

Abstract

The article examines general education and vocational training as means of correction and resocialization of persons sentenced to imprisonment. Some provisions of the penitentiary legislation of foreign countries regarding the order and organization of providing education to those sentenced to deprivation of liberty with the aim of identifying positive experience and introducingit into the current legislation of Ukraine are given. It is noted that, in general, the further development of the network of vocational educational institutions remains a priority in relation to the organization of vocational training of convicts in thepenal institutions of Ukraine. The authors state that the modernization of education remains an important component of the modern policy of Ukraine.