Аннотация
Scientific Research Center for the objectives of criminal punishmentCurrently, the correctional system of Kazakhstan has 20 detention centers and 75 agencies (19 penal colony, 19 strict regime colony, 5 special treatment, 1 prison, 17 colonies/settlements, 8 hospitals, four juvenile correctional facilities, 2 rehabilitation centers for persons released from prison).There had been 53,359 convicts and 8736 arrested persons by the 1st June, 2009.It represents 0.1% of the total population, (according to preliminary results of the national census in 2009, the population of Kazakhstan was 16,304,840 people).Kazakhstan's imprisonment rate is 382 per 100,000 population (is the seventeenth in the number of prisoners per 100,000 populations).It is far more for a country with 16 million people 1 .The funding of the correctional system of Kazakhstan has increased.For example, in 2003 it came to 7 billion tenge, in 2004 -10 billion tenge, 2005 -15 billion tenge, 2007 -22 billion tenge, 2008 -23 billion tenge, it is about 150 million $ 2 .The reformatory system, where about 100 convicted people are on completion of their term is still preserved.Convicted is never left alone and given the possibility to recover.There they have to think not about crime, which they had done, but about how to survive in such a tense situation.Of course, circumstances, in the crush and permanent residence, one can't preserve his physical and mental health, it's inhumane, it corrupts, displays the normal condition of man.