Reasons for
current judicial policy regarding the use of arrest and imprisonment as punishment
Among the various reasons for which every 100th Russian citizen finds
himself a prisoner, and practically every fifth (according to the most modest estimates)
is being held under detention, or knows personally relatives or friends who have been in
custody (including those placed under administrative detention or arrest), one can
distinguish in contemporary judicial policy at least three circumstances which result in
additions to and the mounting of the prison population:
State criminal policy
The neo-inquisitional character of criminal procedure
The sluggishness of court and investigative procedures
