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The article justifies the need to develop and improve the system of adult education for convicts scheduled for release. It covers the issues related to the recidivism among convicts. Besides, the article presents a pedagogical analysis of tools of formal, non-formal and informal adult education for convicts in penitentiary facilities in the UK. It specifies organizational conditions of adult education for convicts in penitentiary facilities in this country based on the study of relevant scientific sources and legislative documents. It determines and analyzes organizational forms of adult education for convicts in penitentiary facilities in England and Wales are defined and analyzed. They are the following: the system of obtaining academic qualifications by convicts; the organization of professional training and employment for convicts; correctional programmes for offenders based on the principles of cognitive-behavioural therapy, which aims to change the beliefs and attitudes encouraging criminal behaviour; religious education and upbringing, which promote the rehabilitation of convicts on the personal level; the assistance of penitentiary facilities in establishing social relationships between convicts and their relatives, their positive impact on the reintegration of convicts into society, the motivation of convicts towards learning and acquisition of social skills; “through the gate resettlement programme” based on the establishment of mentorship by probation officers. Finally, the article highlights positive ideas in the UK experience, which can be implemented in the system of convicts’ correction and resocialization in Ukraine. Further research should aim to justify forms and methods of non-formal education influencing convicts’ resocialization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author notes that drug abuse is one of the major problems faced by the penitentiary system; it threatens national security and is a dominant factor in the relations of convicts and staff, it leads to violence, bullying and arbitrariness against convicts, and often against members of their families and friends on the outside. Drug abuse and blood-transmitted viral infections (including HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis) are serious problems in penitentiary facilities and the criminal justice system on the whole. The purpose of the article is to analyze the international experience of using substitution maintenance therapy medications in convicts and prisoners. The article emphasizes the need for using the best European and world experience of combating drug crime and drug addiction. One of these priorities may be substitution maintenance therapy for drug addicts in penitentiary facilities of Ukraine, drawing upon positive international experience. Besides, over the past 20 years, harm reduction measures have been successfully implemented in correctional facilities and in society throughout Europe as an add-on strategy of existing drug-free treatment programs. The author notes that the joint position paper of the World Health Organization, United Nations (UN) Office on Drugs and Crime and the joint United Nations HIV/AIDS program "Substitution maintenance therapy in the management of opioid dependence and HIV/AIDS prevention" emphasizes that substitution maintenance therapy of opioid dependence is an efficient strategy for the prevention of HIV/AIDS and criminal behavior of convicts and thus should be implemented as soon as possible in communities with high HIV-infection risk. The author comes to the conclusion that the main advantage of the substitution maintenance therapy program in penitentiary facilities is primarily that it offers opioid drug users a chance to abandon illegal opiates, thereby significantly reducing the probability of being infected with socially dangerous diseases (HIV, hepatitis "B", "C", etc.), to reduce the rate of criminal activity and behavior, and to get the chance for resocialization, and thus to improve considerably the quality and standard of living. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]