Features of educational work with citizens of CIS countries, sentenced to imprisonment
The reform of the penal system provides for a change in the ideology of educational work with convicts in places of deprivation of liberty by searching and using new forms and methods of correction, introducing new individual forms of work that provide targeted pedagogical assistance to everyone in need, supplementing the system of encouraging convicts with other incentives for law-abiding behavior, improving the application of disciplinary action, strengthening educational work with special emphasis on involvement s in their career, raising the educational level. The indicated processes are relevant for all categories of convicts, but with respect to some of them there is a certain specificity in the implementation of educational work. One of these categories is made up of citizens of the CIS countries who have national, religious, ideological and other characteristics that influence the organization of educational work with them. Convicted foreign citizens have, on the one hand, the general legal status inherent in all convicts and on the other, a special status with special specific characteristics. Foreign citizens serving a sentence of imprisonment are a socially vulnerable category and experience social and psychological difficulties in adapting to the conditions of serving a sentence in a foreign country.