Full text of the paper:
Proceedings of the Faculty of Law, Novi Sad
2025, vol. LIX no. 1, p. 163-185
working language: Serbian
Review paper
343.261-052: 342.7
343.294
doi:10.5937/zrpfns59-57333
Author:
Zdravko Grujić
University of Pristina with temporary headquarters in Kosovska Mitrovica
Faculty of Law in Pristina with temporary seat in Kosovska Mitrovica
zdravko.grujic@pr.ac.rs
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7433-1468
Ivan Milić
University of Novi Sad
Faculty of Law in Novi Sad
i.milic@pf.uns.ac.rs
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7916-5590
Summary:
The position of a convicted person serving a prison sentence is determined in multiple ways and depends on numerous factors. Basically, the normative framework defines the rights, obligations and responsibilities of convicted persons serving a prison sentence and determines the rules of house rules and expected behavior of convicted persons in penitentiary institutions and district prisons. Their position also depends on the institution where the prison sentence is carried out and to which the person is sent to serve the sentence, architectural arrangement, spatial and functional capacities in the institution, the structure of the convict population, the convict subculture, security, assessment of the degree of risk, treatment, the established program of dealing with the convicted person and numerous other circumstances. The scope of basic rights, especially extended rights (benefits) of convicted persons depends on the category assigned to the convicted person, but also on the fact that determines whether it is a convicted person who represents a part of the general convict population or a convict who belongs to a special category of convicts. Exercising the rights, above all the rights of convicted persons to communicate with the outside world, is indisputably a prerequisite for the successful implementation of treatment, treatment programs and realization of resocialization, but also social reintegration of the convicted person after serving the sentence. The authors, as a logical continuation of the work that analyzed the rights of convicted persons to visit family members and establish contacts outside the institution, using, first of all, the normative legal method, analyzed the rights of convicted persons that are related to communication with the outside world and are provided for by basic laws in the field of criminal enforcement law and by-laws and refer to both basic categories of the convict population. The aim of the work is to indicate to what extent the achievement of communication with the outside world of the convict population is a prerequisite for successful communication with the convict, the implementation of treatment and treatment programs, the realization of resocialization as a purpose of punishment, i.e. enabling social reintegration into the social community after serving the sentence.
Keywords:
communication with the outside world, rights of convicted persons, prison sentence.