Legal criteria for separate content convicted persons in places of deprivation of liberty

The article discusses the criteria for the separate detention of convicts in correctional institutions of the penitentiary system of the Russian Federation, expressed in the norms of law, as well as the issues of differentiation of convicts into separate groups. Based on the results of the study, it is concluded that the system of criteria for the separate detention of convicts, firstly, is the result of assessments of the manifestation of personality in isolation, which creates the need for modern legal regulation of procedures for differentiation of convicts to imprisonment at all stages and stages of execution of punishment; secondly, it allows for the regulatory and organizational implementation of certain specific procedures aimed at leveling the consequences of illegal and immoral behavior on the part of criminally oriented convicts by changing the nature and degree of their isolation in the interests of implementing the principles of legality, differentiation and individualization of the execution of punishments (Article 8 of the Penal Enforcement Code of the Russian Federation); thirdly, orients the law enforcement officer to the need for a differentiated and individual approach to the personality of the convicted person.