Wybrane problemy współczesnej polityki penitencjarnej w Polsce
Selected problems of contemporary penitentiary policy in Poland

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article are selected problems of Polish penitentiarypolicy considered against the background of certain trends in the area of penalpolicy. Between 2017 and 2023, it has become noticeable that there has been a movetoward greater rigor in the area of punishment, as well as the execution of prisonsentences. The flourishing of penal-populist rhetoric, as well as the reform of thePenal Code, are not insignificant for the environment of total institutions such asdetention centres and prisons. The changes implemented over the past few yearscreate a foundation of problems in the indicated areas, and in the long term maylead to the inefficiency of the penitentiary system. The purpose of the article is toidentify the currently most relevant problems of penitentiary policy. The articlediagnoses selected problems of Polish penal and penitentiary policy, and forecaststheir development in aspects such as the phenomenon of prisonization, learnedhelplessness, marginalization and social exclusion of convicts. In addition, to a lim-ited extent, it proposes different from the current policy directions for the executionof imprisonment in order to raise the level of its effectiveness and compliance withinternational standards of dealing with persons deprived of liberty. The researchproblem was formulated in the form of a question: what are currently the most significant problems of penitentiary policy, as well as their consequences? Institu-tional-legal and predictive methods were used. In addition, the research was alsobased on an analysis of the literature on the subject, legal acts and statistical data.

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