VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES IN WORKING WITH JUVENILES SUSPECTED, ACCUSED, CONDEMNED - REGIONAL EXPERIENCE
Due to the growing number of social problems in which volunteers have become indis-pensable, the volunteer movement began to develop. There are people who are willing to spend their time and energy for the benefit of society or a particular person. Voluntary initiatives extend to almost any sphere of human activity, including convicts. Volunteer movement in the penal system can become a radically new and effective way to solve problems related to the prevention of crime and the readaptation of persons held in the institutions of the penal system. At the heart of volunteer (voluntary) activity is altruism, selflessness, publicity, humanism, voluntariness, legality, mercy. It can be argued that volunteer activity is aimed at building convicts ' responsibility to society and encouraging law-abiding behavior. This work reflects the experience and achievements of individual territorial bodies of the Federal penitentiary service of Russia and institutions of the penal system on the use of volunteering in working with juvenile suspects, accused and convicted.