The right of persons serving sentences in correctional institutions to use assisted reproductive technologies in the penitentiary system of the Russian Federation

This article updates the criminal branch of law, namely the issues of the penitentiary system of persons sentenced to life imprisonment. First, the issues of their rights and freedoms. Secondly, questions of the need to implement them to the extent that they, together with their relatives, request by applying to the judicial authorities. Third, whether the use of assisted reproductive technologies by convicts and their families is acceptable. It is assumed that to meet the convicted and their loved ones on the revision of any particular penal norms, wearing restrictive to the above persons on the basis of international standards on the rights and freedoms of the individual, it is not necessary, unless gross violations of human rights. Restrictions are necessary to prevent the Commission of new crimes and correct the convicted person. The scientific goal of the study is the rights and freedoms of persons serving sentences in prisons. The article examines the legal gaps and conflicts revealed in relation to convicts and their relatives on the basis of national human rights law, in particular, the right of convicts to assisted reproductive technologies. Methodology: the Methodological basis of this research is a set of methods of scientific knowledge, among which the leading place is taken by the dialectical method. The article uses General scientific (dialectics, analysis and synthesis, abstraction and concretization) and private scientific (formal-legal, comparative-legal) research methods.

human rights and freedoms, convict, assisted reproductive technologies, correctional facility, medical care