Prison Industry: Economy, Law and Information and Communication Technologies

Topicality of the studied problem is predetermined by the purpose of complex analysis of the phenomenon of prison industry, which is an independent form of economic and legal activities performed by the subjects, guided by different and rather contradictory priorities, which implement their subjective interests and stand by their subjective rights within communications of the partnership and conflict types. At that, the issue how national peculiarities of establishment and development of prison industry in Russia allow including and adapting it into the sphere of action of international penitentiary law, as well as bringing it into correspondence with objective economic regularities, remain open. The purpose of the article is to determine and open general tendencies and peculiarities of establishment and development of the institute of prison industry in Russia and foreign countries. The main methods of the research are the methods of historical and rather-legal analysis, as well as the method of inter-sectorial synthesis, which allow for complex consideration of the process of formation of the institutes of prison industry as a structural and functional element of the system of economic and legal relations. Results: the article presents historical stages of establishment of the institute of prison industry in Russia and foreign countries, study general tendencies and peculiarities of its formation, and determine socio-economic preconditions of emergence of the institute of prison industry as an element of market relations and the object of legal regulation. The article has practical value for specialists in the sphere of penitentiary law and penitentiary economics and those conducting scientific research in the sphere of legal regulation of penitentiary relations and activities in the sphere of penitentiary law and economic planning.