Make use of All Means for Supervision by the Procuracy

Abstract

The means available to the procuracy for supervising adherence to law by the administrations of correctional labor colonies are numerous. Article 33 of the Statute on Procuratorial Supervision in the USSR requires the procurator "to stop execution of orders and instructions by administrations of places of deprivation of freedom when in conflict with law and to protest them by the established procedure"; and Article 37 of the same regulation places on the administrations of places of deprivation of freedom the obligation "to carry out measures proposed by a procurator with respect to adherence to the rules for maintenance of prisoners established by law." The Principles of the Correctional Labor Legislation of the USSR and the Union Republics (Article 10) have expanded the authority of procurators, obligating not only the administration of correctional labor institutions but organs implementing court sentences of exile to stated place of banishment from stated places, and of correctional labor without deprivation of freedom to obey the decrees and proposals of procurators with respect to adherence to the rules of serving of sentences.