Current problems of labor use of convicts sentenced to imprisonment

The main issues of legal regulation of labor in the history of the development of penal institutions (correctional colonies), its place in the system of basic means of correction and re-socialization are considered by the authors. The problems that arise when the convicts are involved in socially useful work in the modern conditions of functioning of the enterprises of correctional colonies, are determined. Attention is drawn to the need to study foreign experience of involving convicts in labor, as there is a significant economic benefit and educational and corrective effect. The ways of improving the efficiency of labor use of convicts in Ukraine on the basis of voluntariness, development and expansion of the limits of convicts’ professional orientation, creating of productive workshops, are indicated.