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Medical and psychological support for convicts who are disabled

Psychological Sciences

Kovachev Oleg Vladimirovich, Candidate of Sciences, Associate Professor Academy of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia

In 2014, more than 20 thousand disabled people were kept in correctional institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, including about 10 thousand disabled people of group 1.

One of the main goals of the “Concept for the development of the penal system Russian Federation until 2020" is "humanization of the conditions of detention of persons in custody and persons serving sentences of imprisonment, increasing guarantees of respect for their rights and legitimate interests." Therefore, in correctional institutions of the Russian Federation it is necessary to pay sufficient attention to respecting the legal rights of convicted disabled people.

We are working to improve the forms and methods of medical and psychological work with convicted disabled people.

The purpose of this work is to equip employees of the penitentiary system with knowledge on the most important problems of medical and psychological support convicts who are disabled.

It examines the directions and forms of medication, psychocorrectional and psychotherapeutic assistance and support for people with disabilities, and the features of serving this category of convicts.

The article discusses some aspects of medical and psychological support for convicted disabled people. The social connections of convicts have been studied.

Relevance: theoretical research and practical experience convince us that the positive attitude formed in correctional institutions under the influence of modern pedagogical, psychological, psychotherapeutic and other technologies and the ongoing personal changes rarely pass the test of strength when faced with the deforming influence of unfavorable factors. Employee assistance in solving this problem is unsystematic, episodic, and often unprofessional. All this largely determines relapse and other negative social manifestations of a post-penitentiary nature.

It is known that a person who has fallen into the sphere of influence of a correctional institution, temporarily isolated from society and limited in connections, significantly worsens his medical, social and psychological status, without having a real opportunity to independently defend his interests and dignity, to satisfy minimal needs at all stages of isolation from society, starting from pre-trial detention (detention) to last day stay in a correctional facility.

An analysis of the social connections of convicted disabled people with relatives showed that 56.4% of convicts maintain social connections with relatives in general-regime correctional institutions, and only 42.3% of convicted disabled people in high-security correctional institutions. convicted disabled person psychological support

Receiving parcels and deliveries. 19.3% of convicted disabled people in general-regime correctional institutions receive parcels and deliveries more than once, which is almost 8% less than in high-security correctional institutions. 19.5% of convicts in general-regime correctional institutions and 17.6% in high-security correctional institutions do not receive parcels or deliveries at all.

The right to visits with relatives and other persons. During the year, 53.1% of convicted disabled people in general-regime correctional institutions and 57.1% in high-security correctional institutions did not have short-term visits. 15.2% of convicted disabled people in general-regime correctional institutions and 21.2% in high-security correctional institutions had only one short-term visit. The majority of convicts in correctional institutions of both types of detention did not have long-term visits, namely 63.2% of convicts with disabilities in general regime correctional institutions and 54.5% of convicts in high-security correctional institutions. The right to telephone conversations. During the year, 18.7% of convicts in general-regime correctional institutions and 22.5% of convicts in high-security correctional institutions exercised the right to telephone conversations more than 4 times. Most of the convicted disabled people did not express a desire to call. In general regime correctional institutions there were 54.5% of such convicts and in maximum security correctional institutions 45.6%.

The right to receive and send letters. In general regime correctional institutions, 63.9% of convicts with disabilities regularly correspond, 24.2% occasionally correspond, and 11.9% of convicts do not correspond. In high-security correctional institutions, 56.1% of convicts regularly correspond, 20.4% occasionally correspond, and 23.5% of convicts with disabilities do not correspond.

We believe that medical and psychological support for convicted disabled people must be provided in all types of institutions and bodies of the penal system. The mechanisms for implementing this task and the experience of constructing such a system are actually the subject of further research.

This work is an attempt to systematically present a new direction in the practical activities of correctional institutions, as well as the still developing branch of penitentiary science and the specialization of a new academic discipline.

In previously published works, only some theoretical and practical problems medical and psychological work with convicts. Meanwhile, its significance is increasing and requires deep, systematic study.

It may be noted that convicted disabled people need various types of constant assistance, support and protection. Medical and social work with them is a priority and mandatory for a specialist; it takes on the nature of support, comprehensive services with the involvement medical workers, psychologists, social workers, educational workers, representatives of social protection bodies and non-governmental public organizations.

Proposed forms and methods of research implementation. The results of the study will be used by practitioners in the performance of their official duties. It is also intended to use the results scientific research in the system of professional and service training of personnel and in the educational process of the Academy of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia.

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Organization and provision of social protection for all categories of convicts, especially those in need (pensioners, disabled people, those who have lost family ties, transferred from correctional colonies, the elderly, those suffering from alcohol or drug addiction, those without a specific place of residence, patients with incurable or intractable diseases);

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Assistance in the social development of the convicted person, including improving their social culture, development social needs, changing normative value orientations, increasing the level of social self-control;

Helping convicts find a socially acceptable environment for them, a point of social interest (work, family, religion, art, etc.).

Development and strengthening of socially useful connections between the convicted person and the outside world;

Assisting the convicted person in obtaining assistance from specialists.

The organization of social work with convicted disabled people begins with identifying and recording persons of this category. When studying them, it is necessary, first of all, to establish: their state of health, the presence length of service and rights to receive a pension after release, family ties, specialties, motivation and life goals, the most characteristic mental states behavioral anomalies.

Disability pensions are issued after the convicted person is recognized as disabled, which is carried out in the manner prescribed by the Regulations on recognizing a person as disabled, approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of August 13, 1996 No. 965, and in accordance with the Classifications and temporary criteria used in the implementation of medical social expertise approved by Resolution of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development and the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation dated January 20, 1997 No. 1/30.

A medical and social examination of a convicted person is carried out upon his written application addressed to the head of the public service institution regulating these issues. The application, referral and other medical documents confirming the violation of his health are sent by the administration of the institution where the convicted person is being held to the territorial institutions of the state medical and social examination service. To draw up an individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person, examination of convicts in institutions of the state medical and social examination service is carried out in the presence of a representative of the administration of the correctional institution where convicts sent for examination are serving their sentences.

If a convicted person is recognized as disabled, a MSEC certificate in the established form is sent to the correctional institution and stored in the personal file of the convicted person. An extract from the certificate of examination at the institution of the state medical and social examination service of a convicted person recognized as disabled is sent within three days from the date of establishment of disability to the body providing pensions at the location of the correctional institution, for assignment, recalculation and organization of payment of a pension. And an extract from the examination report on the results of determining the degree of loss of professional ability to work, the need for additional types assistance, is sent to a correctional institution and stored in the personal file of the convicted person. In case of release from a correctional institution of a convicted person whose disability has not expired, a MSEC certificate is issued to him.

To organize the payment of pensions to convicts who received a pension before their conviction, the administration of the correctional institution sends to the body providing pensions a list and a certificate for each convict about his stay in the correctional institution. The body providing pensions checks the information specified in the list and, if necessary, requests pension files and other documents required to open payments.

After the release of a disabled person from places of imprisonment, the pension file is sent to his place of residence or place of stay at the request of the body providing pensions, based on the application of the pensioner, a certificate of release from places of imprisonment and a registration document issued by the registration authorities. And after everything is collected and arranged Required documents, he will receive a pension again.

When working with convicted disabled people, a social work specialist relies on their inherent positive traits(their experience, knowledge, general erudition, etc.), in order to neutralize the negative features of diseases. This can be achieved if we proceed from the basic principle of social work with this category of convicts - to make their lives active. Because the Special attention disabled people pay attention to the state of their health and try to find ways to maintain it, important has organized a series of lectures and conversations on medical and social topics. In the correctional institution's club, library, and in detachments, corners or stands can be equipped with special medical and educational literature, clippings from periodicals, health education posters designed for convicted disabled people: “How to maintain health,” “How to cope with serious illness“,” “Society needs your experience and knowledge,” etc.

Health education is an integral and integral part of the activities of the medical service, carried out in close cooperation with educational, cultural and social work. Since an important aspect of the entire work of a correctional institution is that a person who can independently adapt to the conditions after release must return to society. Sanitary education work is carried out using various forms and methods: lectures, conversations, consultations, loud reading of literature and radio broadcasting, publication of sanitary bulletins, wall newspapers, memos, use of slogan posters, slides, filmstrips, photo exhibitions, demonstration of films, etc.

When selecting work for convicted disabled people, it should be borne in mind that when choosing a profession, the role of working conditions increases, that disabled people of groups I and II are involved in work only at their request. Effective labor rehabilitation of convicted disabled people is achieved by maintaining a measured work rhythm that does not allow rush jobs, storms, or arrhythmias in production activities.

Organization of social and hygienic measures includes constant monitoring of the health of convicted disabled people, medical care, prevention of psychopathological deviations by engaging convicted disabled people in socially useful activities.

From the point of view of health prevention for this category of convicts, sudden changes in lifestyle are unacceptable in connection with the transition to another type of labor activity or exemption from work due to illness. Such sudden changes cause states of stress that the body cannot always cope with. Involvement, taking into account the state of health, into any types of socially useful activities: assignments to participate in socially useful work without pay, provision of paid work on a part-time basis. Involvement in the work of amateur organizations. Involvement in carrying out one-time assignments. Appointment of responsible persons from among them for any specific area of work on a voluntary basis.

It is effective to create mutual aid groups by social work specialists and ensure the activities of assigned convicts from the section social assistance to serve convicted disabled people who can participate in carrying out activities to ensure proper household, sanitary and hygienic and other necessary matters for disabled people.

To maintain a certain level of intellectual functioning, it is important to involve disabled convicts in self-education. The preservation of psychophysical functions is achieved through feasible activities and occupational therapy, the development of intellectual interests, and the constant expansion of erudition.

Employees must teach disabled people how to organize their leisure time, which they will need in freedom, especially those who will be sent to homes for the elderly and disabled. The organization of free time and leisure for convicted disabled people should pursue two goals: creating the best conditions for restoring physical and mental energy and maximizing their free time in activities that contribute to the development of their social interests. For this purpose, convicted disabled people are involved in mass cultural work, participation in amateur performances, design of visual propaganda, work of the editorial board, promotion of books, repair of existing book stock, and self-education. It is also advisable to involve the category in question in physical education and sports (competitions in chess, checkers, arm wrestling, etc.).

Organizing and conducting with them preventive measures, including, along with purely medical measures, also socio-psychological and socio-pedagogical measures, is also of no small importance for preparing this category of convicts for life in freedom.

Special attention must be paid to psychological and practical training convicted disabled people for release from correctional institutions.

Preparatory work is being carried out with persons who do not have family or relatives to send them to homes for the elderly and disabled after their release from the correctional facility. It is important not only to properly prepare the relevant documents, but also to tell the convicts what these institutions are and what the order of life is like there. There are special norms and rules of behavior that must be followed. It is important to clarify that in institutions of this type, constant control is established over compliance with the order of movement of wards by management, doctors, and the police officer on duty.

It should be noted that in order to provide disabled people released from correctional institutions with appropriate clothing and footwear, measures are being taken to distribute and ensure the receipt of various types of assistance coming from various non-governmental organizations.

For those who cannot be sent to nursing homes, in the absence of family and relatives, measures must be taken to provide them with a home or establish guardianship after their release from the correctional facility. Disabled persons who are unable to independently go to their place of residence after release must be accompanied by medical staff.

Of great importance in the organization of social work in general, in the correctional institution of the penal system of the Ministry of Justice of Russia for the preparation of convicts for release, is the legal consolidation of this activity. The preparation of convicts for release is legislatively enshrined in Chapter 22 of the Criminal Executive Code, which is entitled “Assistance to convicts released from serving their sentences and control over them,” including convicts with disabilities.

Preparations for the release of persons serving sentences in correctional institutions begin no later than 6 months before the end of the term of imprisonment.

Activities to prepare convicts for release include several stages:

1. Registration of convicts released at the end of their sentence;

2. The main element of preparing convicted disabled people for release from correctional institutions is documentation. This is to provide convicts released from correctional institutions with all the necessary documents. The main document, without which it is impossible to resolve any issue related to the resocialization of a convicted person, is the passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation. Issues of obtaining passports are relevant for all categories of those who have lost them for various reasons.

3. Restoration of socially useful connections of convicts (sending requests to the police department for this purpose, correspondence with relatives, etc.). Of particular importance in this case is the interaction of a social work specialist with the heads of detachments, as well as employees of other departments of the correctional institution;

4. Conducting individual conversations with each person being released, during which life plans for the future are clarified. In addition, the procedure for employment, the rights and responsibilities of citizens during the job search are explained, issues of household arrangements, etc. are clarified;

5. Registration of social cards for each convicted person with mandatory issuance upon release. Both specialists from the administration of the penitentiary institution and other services participate in drawing up a social map. Maps are compiled in order to ensure a complete record of persons released from the institution for submission to the authorities local government, employment institutions, social protection of the population, health care and other institutions and organizations at the place of residence;

6. Payment for the convict’s travel to the destination upon release. If necessary, escort to the train and purchase of travel documents are provided;

7. Development of teaching materials containing information necessary for those released on issues social services, medical support, paperwork (passport, disability, registration at place of residence), employment, social support. This methodological material allows a person being released from a penal institution to form certain knowledge about social reality.

9. It is also necessary to identify convicts who have the right to receive a pension and take timely measures to provide them with pensions after release. Pension legislation distinguishes two types of disability pensions: labor pensions; state pensions.

Basic documents that need to be prepared by a social work specialist to assign pensions:

Statement by the convicted person;

Convict's passport;

Certificates confirming the place of stay or actual residence of a citizen on the territory of the Russian Federation;

Insurance certificate of state pension insurance;

Documents on labor activity - work book; a certificate of average monthly earnings for periods of activity for calculating the amount of pension benefits;

Documents establishing disability and the degree of limitation of ability to work;

Information about disabled family members, death of the breadwinner; confirming family relations with the deceased breadwinner; that the deceased was a single mother; about the death of the other parent;

Other documents (their submission is possible in necessary cases). A social work specialist draws up the necessary documents and sends them to the pension authorities, monitors the timely transfer of pensions and takes measures to eliminate deficiencies. If the convicted person does not have work book and other documents necessary for the assignment and recalculation of pensions, requests are sent to search for these documents. If work experience cannot be confirmed or there is no work experience, a state social pension is assigned upon reaching the age of 65 years for men and 55 years of age for women, or a state social disability pension.

An important formal element aimed at the successful resocialization and social adaptation of a convicted disabled person being released from a correctional facility is the preparation and issuance of a “Memo to the Released Person.” Its structure may include: advice from a psychologist; rights and obligations of released citizens; information about the release procedure; information about the employment service; O pension provision; about going to court; about the provision of possible medical assistance; helpful information(about free canteens, night shelters, social assistance services, dispensaries, helplines, passport services, etc.)

Thus, social work with convicted disabled people in correctional institutions is a logically structured system of social activities. Wherein great importance has practical preparedness of disabled people for release. Its effectiveness is of significant importance in solving issues of social, everyday, labor rehabilitation and social adaptation them to life in freedom.

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Chapter 12. Features of the activities of public associations of disabled people

12.1 Concept and types of public associations of disabled people

The current stage of development of Russian society is characterized by increased activity of citizens within the framework of voluntary associations in order to defend their social, political, professional and other interests. In this regard, of particular importance are public associations disabled people.

In their work, they are directly guided by the vital interests, values and priorities of the people within them and, thanks to this, act as the most suitable representatives of this category of citizens in relations with other institutions of society.

According to the Constitution of the Russian Federation of 1993, “everyone has the right to association; freedom of activity of public associations is guaranteed; no one can be forced to join or remain in any association” (Article 30).

These constitutional provisions are specified in many federal laws. According to Article 5 of the Federal Law “On Public Associations” of 1995 No. 82, a public association is a voluntary, self-governing, non-profit formation created on the initiative of citizens united on the basis of common interests to realize common goals specified in the charter.

According to Article 7 of this law, public associations can be created in one of the following organizational and legal forms: public organization; social movement; public fund; public institution; public initiative body; Political Party.

A public organization is a membership-based public association created on the basis of joint activities to protect common interests and achieve the statutory goals of united citizens (Article 8).

A social movement is a mass public association consisting of participants and not having membership, pursuing social, political and other socially useful goals supported by the participants social movement(Article 9).

A public fund is one of the types of non-profit foundations; it is a non-membership public association, the purpose of which is to form property on the basis of voluntary contributions, other receipts not prohibited by law and to use this property for socially useful purposes (Article 10).

A public institution is a non-membership public association whose goal is to provide a specific type of service that meets the interests of the participants and corresponds to the statutory goals of the said association (Article 11).

A public initiative body is a non-membership public association whose purpose is to jointly resolve various social problems, arising among citizens at the place of residence, work or study, aimed at meeting the needs of an unlimited number of persons whose interests are related to the achievement of statutory goals and the implementation of programs of the public initiative body at the place of its creation (Article 12).

A political public association is a public association, the charter of which should include participation in political life society through influence on the formation of the political will of citizens, participation in elections to state authorities and local governments through the nomination of candidates and the organization of their election campaign, participation in the organization and activities of these bodies (Article 12.1).

According to Article 33 of the Federal Law “On Social Protection of Disabled Persons in the Russian Federation” of 1995, public associations created and operating to protect the rights and legitimate interests of disabled people, providing them with equal opportunities with other citizens, are a form of social protection of disabled people. The state provides such public associations with assistance and assistance, including material, technical and financial.

Based on the interpretation of the norms contained in the laws, public organizations of disabled people are one of the organizational and legal forms of public associations. These are recognized as organizations created by people with disabilities and persons representing their interests, in order to protect the rights and legitimate interests of people with disabilities, provide them with equal opportunities with other citizens, solve problems of social integration of people with disabilities, among whose members are people with disabilities and their legal representatives (one of the parents, adoptive parents , guardian or trustee) constitute at least 80 percent (Article 33 of the Federal Law “On Public Associations”, 1995).

The main goal of state support for public associations of people with disabilities is the creation and provision of legal, economic and organizational conditions, guarantees and incentives for the activities of such associations aimed at the rehabilitation and self-realization of people with disabilities, their integration into society, providing them with equal opportunities with other citizens in the implementation of constitutional rights and freedoms, as well as protection of their legitimate interests.

Based on the meaning, goals and main directions of policy regarding people with disabilities, state support for public associations of people with disabilities is carried out on the basis of the principles:

The priority of common humanistic values in the activities of public associations of disabled people;

Recognition of the independence of public associations of people with disabilities and their inalienable right and role in the development and implementation of state policy regarding people with disabilities, in the protection of their constitutional rights and legitimate interests;

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All social work with convicted disabled people during their stay in correctional institutions is carried out by correctional institution employees (primarily social workers, medical workers, squad leaders and psychologists). In Russia, social work in the penitentiary sphere as independent species professional activity began to take shape in 2001. This is due to the transformation criminal executive policies towards humanization, i.e. respect for the rights of convicts, ensuring optimal conditions serving their sentences and returning to society.

Representatives of public organizations and religious denominations may be involved in this work, providing assistance in this work of the penal system. Practice shows that managers, as well as social, educational and medical services of correctional institutions, on the basis of cooperation agreements concluded with various organizations, primarily create opportunities for weakly protected categories of convicts, which include convicted disabled people, to receive social assistance from them.

The main tasks of social work in a correctional institution are:

? organizing and ensuring social protection for all categories of convicts, especially those in need (pensioners, disabled people, those who have lost family ties, those transferred from correctional colonies, the elderly, those suffering from alcohol or drug addiction, those without a fixed place of residence, patients with incurable or intractable diseases);
? assistance in ensuring acceptable social and living conditions for serving the sentence;
? assistance in the social development of the convicted person, including improving their social culture, developing social needs, changing normative value orientations, increasing the level of social self-control;
? helping convicts find a socially acceptable environment for them, a point of social interest (work, family, religion, art, etc.);
? development and strengthening of socially useful connections between the convicted person and the outside world;
? assistance to the convicted person in obtaining assistance from specialists.

The organization of social work with convicted disabled people begins with identifying and recording persons of this category. It is necessary first of all to establish: their state of health, the presence of work experience and the right to receive a pension after release, family ties, specialties, motivation and goals of life, the most characteristic mental states, behavioral anomalies.

Disability pensions are issued after the convicted person is recognized as disabled, which is carried out in the manner prescribed by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of February 20, 2006 No. 95 “On the procedure and conditions for recognizing a person as disabled.” A medical and social examination of a convicted person is carried out upon his written application addressed to the head of the public service institution regulating these issues. The application, referral and other medical documents confirming the violation of his health are sent by the administration of the institution where the convicted person is being held to the territorial institutions of the state medical and social examination service. To draw up an individual rehabilitation program for a disabled person, examination of convicts in institutions of the state medical and social examination service is carried out in the presence of a representative of the administration of the correctional institution where convicts sent for examination are serving their sentences.

If a convicted person is recognized as disabled, a MSEC certificate in the established form is sent to the correctional institution and stored in the personal file of the convicted person. An extract from the certificate of examination at the institution of the state medical and social examination service of a convicted person recognized as disabled is sent within three days from the date of establishment of disability to the body providing pensions at the location of the correctional institution for assignment, recalculation and organization of pension payment. And an extract from the examination report on the results of determining the degree of loss of professional ability and the need for additional types of assistance is sent to the correctional institution and stored in the personal file of the convicted person. In case of release from a correctional institution of a convicted person whose disability has not expired, a MSEC certificate is issued to him.

Payment of pensions assigned to those sentenced to imprisonment is made from the date of sentencing, but not earlier than July 1, 1997 and in all cases not earlier than the day from which the pension was assigned. To organize the payment of pensions to convicts who received a pension before their conviction, the administration of the correctional institution sends to the body providing pensions a list and a certificate for each convict about his stay in a correctional institution. The body providing pensions checks the information specified in the list and, if necessary, requests pension files and other documents required to open payments.

After the release of a disabled person from places of imprisonment, the pension file is sent to his place of residence or place of stay at the request of the body providing pensions, based on the application of the pensioner, a certificate of release from places of imprisonment and a registration document issued by the registration authorities. And after all the necessary documents are collected and completed, he will again receive a pension.

When working with convicted disabled people, a social work specialist relies on their inherent positive qualities (their experience, knowledge, general erudition, etc.) in order to neutralize the negative features of the disease. This can be achieved if we proceed from the basic principle of social work with this category of convicts - to make their lives active. Since people with disabilities pay special attention to their health and try to find ways to maintain it, organizing a series of lectures and conversations on medical and social topics is important. In the correctional institution's club, library, and in detachments, corners or stands with special medical and educational literature, clippings from periodicals, health and educational posters designed for convicted disabled people can be equipped: “How to maintain health,” “How to cope with a serious illness.” , “Society needs your experience and knowledge,” etc.

Health education is an integral and integral part of the activities of the medical service, carried out in close cooperation with educational, cultural and social work, since an important aspect of the entire work of a correctional institution is that a person who can independently adapt to the conditions after liberation. Sanitary educational work is carried out using various forms and methods: lectures, conversations, consultations, loud reading of literature and radio broadcasting; publication of sanitary bulletins, wall newspapers, leaflets; use of posters, slogans, slides, filmstrips, photo exhibitions, demonstration of films, etc.

The organization of social and hygienic measures includes: constant monitoring of the health of convicted disabled people, medical care, prevention of psychopathological deviations by engaging convicted disabled people in socially useful activities. From the point of view of health prevention for this category of convicts, sudden changes in lifestyle are unacceptable in connection with a transition to another type of work activity or release from work due to illness. Such sudden changes cause states of stress, which the body cannot always cope with, involvement, taking into account the state of health, into any types of socially useful activities - orders to participate in socially useful work without pay; provision of paid part-time work; involvement in the work of amateur organizations; involvement in the execution of one-time assignments; appointment of responsible persons from among them for any specific area of work on a voluntary basis.

It is effective to create mutual assistance groups by social work specialists and ensure the activities of assigned convicts from the social assistance section to serve convicts with disabilities who can participate in carrying out activities to ensure proper household, sanitary and hygienic and other necessary matters for the disabled.

Employees must teach disabled people how to organize their leisure time, which they will need in freedom, especially those who will be sent to homes for the elderly and disabled. The organization of free time and leisure for convicted disabled people should pursue two goals: creating the best conditions for restoring physical and mental energy and maximizing their free time in activities that contribute to the development of their social interests. For this purpose, convicted disabled people are involved in cultural and mass work, participation in amateur performances, visual propaganda, the work of the editorial board, book promotion, repair of existing book stock, and self-education. It is also advisable to involve the category in question in physical education and sports (competitions in chess, checkers, arm wrestling, etc.).

Organizing and carrying out preventive measures with them, including, along with purely medical measures, socio-psychological and socio-pedagogical measures, is also of no small importance for preparing this category of convicts for life in freedom. Special attention must be paid to the psychological and practical preparation of convicted disabled people for release from correctional institutions.

Let us note that in order to provide disabled people released from correctional institutions with appropriate clothing and footwear, measures are being taken to distribute and receive various types of assistance coming from various non-governmental organizations.

Of great importance when organizing social work in general in the correctional institution of the penal system of the Ministry of Justice of Russia for preparing convicts for release is the legal consolidation of this activity. The preparation of convicts for release is legislatively enshrined in Chapter 22 of the Criminal Executive Code of the Russian Federation, which is entitled “Assistance to convicts released from serving their sentences and control over them,” including convicts with disabilities. Preparations for the release of persons serving sentences in correctional institutions begin no later than six months before the end of the term of imprisonment. Activities to prepare convicts for release include several stages.

1st stage. Registration of convicts released at the end of their sentence.
2nd stage. Documentation (providing convicts released from correctional institutions with all necessary documents). This is the main element of preparing convicted disabled people for release from correctional institutions. The main document, without which it is impossible to resolve any issue related to the resocialization of a convicted person, is the passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation. Issues of obtaining passports are relevant for all categories of those who have lost them for various reasons.
3rd stage. Restoring socially useful connections of convicts. For this purpose, requests are sent to the department of internal affairs, correspondence is conducted with relatives, etc. The interaction of a social work specialist with the heads of detachments, as well as employees of other departments of the correctional institution, is of particular importance.
4th stage. Conducting individual conversations with each person released. During the conversation, life plans for the future become clear. In addition, the procedure for employment, the rights and responsibilities of citizens during the job search are explained, issues of household arrangements, etc. are clarified.
5th stage. Registration of social cards for each convicted person. A social card must be issued to a convicted person upon release. Specialists from both the administration of the institution executing the punishment and other services participate in drawing up a social map. Maps are compiled in order to ensure full accounting of persons released from the institution for submission to local government bodies, employment institutions, social protection of the population, health care and other institutions and organizations at the place of residence.
6th stage. Ensuring the passage of the convicted person to the place of destination upon release. Travel documents are purchased and, if necessary, the person being released is escorted to the vehicle.
7th stage. Development of teaching materials containing information necessary for those released on issues of social services, medical care, paperwork (passports, disability, registration at place of residence), employment, social support. These teaching materials will allow a person being released from a penal institution to develop certain knowledge about social reality.
8th stage. Identification of convicts entitled to receive a pension and taking timely measures to provide them with pensions after release. Pension legislation distinguishes two types of disability pensions: labor pensions; state pensions.

Basic documents that need to be prepared by a social work specialist to assign pensions:

? statement of the convicted person;
? passport of the convicted person;
? certificates confirming the place of stay or actual residence of a citizen on the territory of the Russian Federation;
? insurance certificate of state pension insurance;
? documents on work activity: work book, certificate of average monthly earnings for periods of activity for calculating the amount of pension benefits;
? documents establishing disability and the degree of limitation of the ability to work and other documents required in a number of cases.

A social work specialist draws up the necessary documents and sends them to the pension authorities, monitors the timely transfer of pensions and takes measures to eliminate deficiencies. If the convicted person does not have a work book and other documents necessary for the assignment and recalculation of a pension, requests are sent to search for these documents. If work experience cannot be confirmed or there is no work experience, a state social pension is assigned upon reaching the age of 65 years for men and 55 years of age for women, or a state social disability pension.

An important formal element aimed at the successful resocialization and social adaptation of a convicted disabled person being released from a correctional facility is the preparation and issuance of a “Memo to the Released Person.” It may include: advice from a psychologist; rights and obligations of released citizens; information about the release procedure; information about the employment service; about pension provision; about going to court; about the provision of possible medical assistance; useful information (about free canteens, night shelters, social assistance services, dispensaries, helplines, passport services, etc.).

Thus, social work with convicted disabled people in correctional institutions is a logically structured system of social activities. At the same time, the practical preparedness of disabled people for release is of great importance. Its effectiveness is of significant importance in addressing issues of social, everyday, labor rehabilitation and social adaptation of disabled people to life in freedom.

A. L.Kovalenko - 4th year cadet of the psychological faculty of the All-Russian Academy of Economics of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia

Behind last years In the world, ideas about the problem of disability and, accordingly, approaches to solving it have changed significantly. Disabled people in modern conditions Not only persons who have reduced or lost ability to work are recognized, but also persons who have other limitations in their ability to live (self-care, movement, communication, orientation, control of their behavior, learning).

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities defines persons with disabilities as those with long-lasting physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments that, when interacting with various barriers, may interfere with their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others. At the same time, it is stated that disability is an evolving concept, the result of the interaction that occurs between people with health impairments and attitudinal and environmental barriers and prevents their full and effective participation in the life of society on an equal basis with others.

The quality of life of persons with disabilities should not differ from the quality of life of the rest of the population. It is important that this goal is achieved not so much through charitable activities, but through the implementation of a system of social, organizational, economic, psychological and other measures that allow a disabled person to adapt to new conditions and find his place in life.

Disability is a social phenomenon that no society can avoid. Accordingly, each state, in accordance with its level of development, priorities and capabilities, forms a social and economic policy towards people with disabilities.

Federal Law No. 181 of November 24, 1995 “On the social protection of disabled people in the Russian Federation” determines the content of domestic state policy in this area. Its goal is to provide disabled people with equal opportunities with other citizens in the implementation of civil, economic, political and other rights and freedoms provided for by the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

Despite numerous social support measures enshrined in legislation, people with disabilities (including convicts) continue to face problems. The most significant of them are:

- difficulties in employment and discrimination in employment;
- physical inaccessibility and technical unsuitability for disabled people of most workplaces in open market labor;
- restriction of access to education and satisfaction of socio-cultural needs;
- insufficient volume and low quality of health services to implement medical rehabilitation disabled people;
- lack of comfortable living conditions, etc.

Physical limitations are the reason

isolation of disabled people from public life. Often people with disabilities feel rejected, experience moral and psychological problems and behave separately.

Available in the country government agencies, non-governmental organizations, public associations are called upon to implement measures aimed at protecting public health and preventing disability, at creating conditions for the rehabilitation of disabled people, their integration into society, and professional activities. However, a study of the experience of their activities allows us to assert that this category of the population is provided mainly with socio-medical and socio-professional rehabilitation services.

For persons with limited health capabilities, serving sentences and released from correctional institutions, obtaining education is vitally important, since it is one of the most effective mechanisms for personal development and increasing its social status. On a personal level, education provides freedom of life choice of goals, spiritual and material independence, imparts resilience and harmonizes existence, which is especially important for persons whose status due to being in conditions of unfreedom has been significantly transformed.

The economic feasibility of obtaining a profession (and therefore vocational education) is an opportunity to achieve social fulfillment and material independence. That is why, in the field of vocational education of convicted disabled people, the obvious priority is integration, which in the best possible way provides them with equal rights and opportunities in rational employment and effective employment

Social work in penitentiary institutions modern Russia is actively developing as a special type of activity to provide social assistance and support, and provide social protection for convicts. For this purpose, departments for socio-psychological work, groups for social protection and recording the work experience of convicts have been created in correctional institutions for persons detained in them, the employees of which, when solving the tasks specified by regulations, are primarily guided in their activities by the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

Convicts with disabilities have a state-guaranteed right to the provision of qualified medical and social assistance, implementation various kinds restorative and rehabilitation measures of a medical nature, including through medical and medical-social examination.

The purpose of legislation on social protection of disabled people is to provide them with equal opportunities with other citizens in the implementation of civil, economic, political and other rights and freedoms provided for by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, as well as in accordance with generally recognized principles and norms international law and international treaties of the Russian Federation. Provided in regulations Social protection measures for disabled people are the obligations of the Russian Federation and its constituent entities. Legislation on these measures and forms of support for people with disabilities applies to all categories of citizens, including convicted persons serving a criminal sentence in the form of imprisonment. At the same time, the special nature of the execution of imprisonment (that is, the organization of a special penal process, including the stage of release and post-penitentiary resocialization) and preparation for release is determined by the sign of disability individual serving a criminal sentence.

Activities to provide convicts with social assistance, support, protection for the purpose of their correction and resocialization during the execution of a criminal sentence, as well as adaptation to society after release, is a priority of social work in a correctional institution, especially with such a category as convicted disabled people

The Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, adopted in 1955, note that “the legislator should take measures to ensure that prisoners, during and after serving their sentences, retain the maximum rights in the field of social security, social benefits and other civil interests.” Preserving the maximum rights in the field of social security for convicted disabled people, as recommended in fundamental international documents, is an expression of the principles of humanism and social justice in penal law as it relates to social security. (Social work in the penal system: Textbook / S.A. Luzgin, M.I. Kuznetsov, V.N. Kazantsev, etc.; Generally edited by Yu.I. Kalinin. - 2nd ed., corrected - Ryazan, 2006.)

The most important laws that are important for social work and the penal system with convicted disabled people include, first of all, the Criminal Executive Code of the Russian Federation (1996), which fixes as a task of the penal legislation of the Russian Federation, along with others: “providing assistance to convicts in social adaptation.” This rule of law applies to the entire mass of convicts serving criminal sentences, including convicted disabled people.

One cannot ignore such an aspect of social work as medical and sanitary provision for convicts. In accordance with Article 101 of the Penal Code of the Russian Federation, treatment and preventive institutions are organized in the penitentiary system for medical care of convicts, and the administration of the correctional institution is responsible for fulfilling the requirements to ensure their health protection.

In correctional institutions you can meet convicted persons with disabilities: vision, hearing, amputated limbs, general and occupational diseases. They have the opportunity to regularly receive medical care in a correctional institution; they can be placed in an inpatient medical unit of the colony, as well as in a special hospital or medical correctional institution. Keeping this category of convicts in places of deprivation of liberty requires the creation of certain conditions, proper care for them, as well as material costs.

Disabled people of groups I and II serving a sentence may, in addition, based on medical reports, receive parcels (deliveries), parcels, as well as purchase food and basic necessities from the funds available in their personal accounts, in the amount of one established minimum wage with taking into account the allowances provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation. Individual convicts are involved in assisting disabled people in caring for them.

Currently, convicted disabled people (if they wish) are employed in production facilities of penal institutions or enterprises of various forms of ownership that cooperate with penal institutions, based on their employment opportunities and necessarily their desire, taking into account the requirements of the Penal Code of the Russian Federation and Labor Code RF.

Penal legislation provides for working convicts with disabilities of groups I and II, as well as elderly convicts, certain benefits:

1) increasing the duration of annual paid leave to 18 working days;

2) involvement in work without pay only at their request;

3) increasing the size of the guaranteed minimum to 50% of their accrued wages, pensions and other income.

Convicts who have lost their ability to work while serving a sentence of imprisonment have the right to compensation for damage in cases and in the manner provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Convicts with disabilities, like all convicts, have the opportunity to communicate with each other and with other convicts, staff, and attend all awareness-raising, social, cultural, and physical culture and sports events held by the administration of the correctional institution. They have the opportunity to visit the library, as well as watch TV shows at the allotted time according to the daily routine.

In every correctional institution, all convicts, including disabled people, have the opportunity to receive basic general education, secondary education, vocational education, and distance learning opportunities are being created in colleges and universities.

Many positive examples from the activities of the penitentiary system can be cited when convicted disabled people themselves actively participate in leisure, cultural, physical and sports events, as well as in the activities of public amateur groups to provide assistance to penitentiary administrations in various areas of activity.

Meals for convicts with disabilities of groups I and II are provided free of charge according to the increased standards established by the Government of the Russian Federation (general, dietary) and are organized depending on their mobility in the canteen of a correctional institution or in a designated place in the accommodation premises. Clothing for convicts with disabilities of groups I and II is also provided free of charge. Care for convicted disabled people can be carried out by people specially assigned by the administration of the penitentiary institution for this purpose from among the convicted persons themselves. They help such convicts in all matters related to the need to maintain personal hygiene and public sanitation. Convicted disabled people have the right to state pensions on a general basis. Payment of pensions to them is carried out by social protection authorities at the location of the correctional facility by transferring pensions to the personal accounts of convicted persons.

When preparing for release, it is necessary to take into account the characteristics of such categories of convicts as disabled people of groups I and II, the elderly, pregnant women with children, as well as foreign citizens.

So, in accordance with Article 180 of the Penal Code of the Russian Federation, at the request of convicts who are disabled people of groups I and II, as well as convicted men over 60 years of age who did not have a permanent place of residence before their conviction, and convicted women over 55 years old, who are released from places of imprisonment, The administration of correctional institutions sends requests to social protection authorities to place them in homes for the disabled and the elderly. Persons without children traveling to homes for the disabled or elderly are provided with tickets to the location of the institution.

Thus, all of the above confirms the existence of legal norms in the penal system of the Russian Federation that establish the foundations of social work with convicted disabled people in the penal system of the Ministry of Justice of Russia, which are reflected in: the Constitution of the Russian Federation; regulations of the Ministry of Justice of Russia regulating issues of social work; regulations Federal service execution of punishments, its main departments and departments; local regulations adopted by the administration of correctional institutions of penal institutions on issues of social work.

All social work with convicted disabled people during their stay in correctional institutions is carried out by its employees (primarily social workers, medical workers, squad leaders and psychologists). In Russia, social work in the penitentiary sphere as an independent type of professional activity began to take shape in 2001. This is due to the transformation of penal policy towards humanization, i.e. respecting the rights of convicts, ensuring optimal conditions for serving their sentences, and returning to society.

The main tasks of social work in a correctional institution are:

Assistance in ensuring acceptable social and living conditions for serving the sentence;

Assistance in the social development of the convicted person, including improving their social culture, developing social needs, changing normative value orientations, increasing the level of social self-control;

Helping convicts find a socially acceptable environment for them, a point of social interest (work, family, religion, art, etc.).

Development and strengthening of socially useful connections between the convicted person and the outside world;

Assisting the convicted person in obtaining assistance from specialists.

The organization of social work with convicted disabled people begins with identifying and recording persons of this category. When studying them, it is necessary, first of all, to establish: their state of health, the presence of work experience and the right to receive a pension after release, family ties, specialties, motivation and goals of life, the most characteristic mental states and behavioral abnormalities.

If a convicted person is recognized as disabled, a MSEC certificate in the established form is sent to the correctional institution and stored in the personal file of the convicted person. An extract from the certificate of examination at the institution of the state medical and social examination service of a convicted person recognized as disabled is sent within three days from the date of establishment of disability to the body providing pensions at the location of the correctional institution, for assignment, recalculation and organization of payment of a pension. And an extract from the examination report on the results of determining the degree of loss of professional ability and the need for additional types of assistance is sent to the correctional institution and stored in the personal file of the convicted person. In case of release from a correctional institution of a convicted person whose disability has not expired, a MSEC certificate is issued to him.

After the release of a disabled person from places of imprisonment, the pension file is sent to his place of residence or place of stay at the request of the body providing pensions, based on the application of the pensioner, a certificate of release from places of imprisonment and a registration document issued by the registration authorities. And after all the necessary documents are collected and completed, he will again receive a pension.

Health education is an integral and integral part of the activities of the medical service, carried out in close cooperation with educational, cultural and social work. Since an important aspect of the entire work of a correctional institution is that a person who can independently adapt to the conditions after release must return to society. Sanitary educational work is carried out using various forms and methods: lectures, conversations, consultations, loud reading of literature and radio broadcasting, publication of sanitary bulletins, wall newspapers, memos, the use of slogan posters, slides, filmstrips, photo exhibitions, film demonstrations, etc.

The organization of social and hygienic measures includes constant monitoring of the health of convicted disabled people, medical care, prevention of psychopathological deviations by engaging convicted disabled people in socially useful activities.

From the point of view of health prevention for this category of convicts, sudden changes in lifestyle are unacceptable in connection with a transition to another type of work activity or release from work due to illness. Such sudden changes cause states of stress that the body cannot always cope with. Involvement, taking into account the state of health, into any types of socially useful activities: assignments to participate in socially useful work without pay, provision of paid work on a part-time basis. Involvement in the work of amateur organizations. Involvement in carrying out one-time assignments. Appointment of responsible persons from among them for any specific area of work on a voluntary basis.

It is effective to create mutual assistance groups by social work specialists and ensure the activities of assigned convicts from the social assistance section to serve convicts with disabilities, who can participate in carrying out activities to ensure proper household, sanitary, hygienic and other necessary affairs for disabled people.

Organizing and carrying out preventive measures with them, including, along with purely medical measures, also socio-psychological and socio-pedagogical measures, is also of no small importance for preparing this category of convicts for life in freedom.

Special attention must be paid to the psychological and practical preparation of convicted disabled people for release from correctional institutions.

Preparations for the release of persons serving sentences in correctional institutions begin no later than 6 months before the end of the term of imprisonment.

Activities to prepare convicts for release include several stages:

1. Registration of convicts released at the end of their sentence;

5. Registration of social cards for each convicted person with mandatory issuance upon release. Both specialists from the administration of the penitentiary institution and other services participate in drawing up a social map. Cards are compiled to ensure full accounting of persons released from the institution for submission to local government bodies, employment institutions, social protection of the population, health care and other institutions and organizations at the place of residence;

6. Payment for the convict’s travel to the destination upon release. If necessary, escort to the train and purchase of travel documents are provided;

7. Development of teaching materials containing information necessary for those released on issues of social services, medical care, paperwork (passports, disability, registration at the place of residence), employment, social support. This methodological material allows a person being released from a penal institution to form certain knowledge about social reality.

Basic documents that need to be prepared by a social work specialist to assign pensions:

Statement by the convicted person;

Convict's passport;

Certificates confirming the place of stay or actual residence of a citizen on the territory of the Russian Federation;

Insurance certificate of state pension insurance;

Documents on labor activity - work book; a certificate of average monthly earnings for periods of activity for calculating the amount of pension benefits;

Documents establishing disability and the degree of limitation of ability to work;

Other documents (their submission is possible if necessary). A social work specialist draws up the necessary documents and sends them to the pension authorities, monitors the timely transfer of pensions and takes measures to eliminate deficiencies. If the convicted person does not have a work book and other documents necessary for the assignment and recalculation of a pension, requests are sent to search for these documents. If work experience cannot be confirmed or there is no work experience, a state social pension is assigned upon reaching the age of 65 years for men and 55 years of age for women, or a state social disability pension.

An important formal element aimed at the successful resocialization and social adaptation of a convicted disabled person being released from a correctional facility is the preparation and issuance of a “Memo to the Released Person.” Its structure may include: advice from a psychologist; rights and obligations of released citizens; information about the release procedure; information about the employment service; about pension provision; about going to court; about the provision of possible medical assistance; useful information (about free canteens, night shelters, social assistance services, dispensaries, helplines, passport services, etc.)

Thus, social work with convicted disabled people in correctional institutions is a logically structured system of social activities. At the same time, the practical preparedness of disabled people for release is of great importance. Its effectiveness is essential in resolving issues of social, everyday, labor rehabilitation and their social adaptation to life in freedom.

Questions for self-control

1. What are the main problems of convicted disabled people in correctional institutions?

2. Expand the legal norms of social work with convicted disabled people in the legislation of the Russian Federation.

3. Describe the main directions and forms of social work with convicted disabled people in correctional institutions.

Kuznetsov M. I., Ananyev O. G. Social work with convicts in correctional institutions: textbook. a manual for beginners in social work of the penitentiary system - Ryazan, 2006.

On social protection of disabled people in the Russian Federation: Federal Law of November 24, 1995 No. 181-FZ.

On social services for elderly citizens and disabled people: Federal Law of August 2, 1995 No. 122-FZ.

On the basics of social services for the population in the Russian Federation: Federal Law of December 10, 1995 No. 195-FZ.

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