Employment of prisoners and convicts in the Swiss Confederation: some problems

The article deals with the foreign experience of involving convicts and prisoners in labor both in penitentiary institutions and in pre-trial detention facilities in the territory of the Swiss Confederation. The study focused on the peculiarities of the division of convicts and prisoners in the territory of the Swiss Confederation and the connection with the Cantons. It was found that almost every Canton is characterized by the application of its own rules for the detention of prisoners in pre-trial detention facilities, which have specific characteristics that reflect the specific territorial location of the subject. The purpose of the study was to study the problems and accumulated experience of regulating the activities of attracting convicts and prisoners to work in the Swiss Confederation, which can also help Russian legislation to solve emerging problems. The methodological basis of the research is the method of dialectics and the general scientific and private scientific methods included in it, in particular, such as the method of formal logic, analysis and the comparative legal method. Thus, possible ways of overcoming the existing problematic issues by the Swiss Confederation were identified. The presented experience may be valuable for the Russian Federation and, provided that certain information is available, it should be recorded for future tasks.

detainee, places of pre-trial detention, foreign experience, penitentiary system