CORRECTIVE WORK: HISTORY, THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE Pitkevich Lidiya Petrovna, competitor/ Place of study: International Law Institute. <...> E-mail: Lida-19832008@yandex.ru Annotation: The article examines the origin, development and prospects of criminal punishment in the form of correctional works in the Russian Federation. <...> Literature list: The Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. - M: TC Welby, 2013 Criminal Executive Code of the Russian Federation. <...> Criminal Executive Code of the Republic of Belarus. <...> TСО FОНОrКl LКа oП 07.12.2012 № 420-FZ "On Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation", pp "A", "b" of item. 7. <...>