Abstract
The article considers such an important problem of law enforcement activity as ensuring the rights and legal interests of the prisoners under sentence. As a result of non-fulfill or incomplete fulfill of the rights and legal interests of the prisoners under sentence by the authorized bodies obliged to perform such an important state function as the execution of punishments violate not only the constitutional rights and legal interests of the prisoners, but also fail to comply the requirements of the Basic Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan – the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The implementation of the task on ensuring the rights and legal interests of citizens during the execution of punishment is a state task arising from the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, where Article 1 stipulates that the Republic of Kazakhstan proclaims itself as a democratic, secular, legal and social state whose highest values are a person, his life, rights, and freedoms. The authors of this article set out the main directions for ensuring the rights and legal interests of the prisoners under sentences in the Republic of Kazakhstan.