Public organization "Penitentiary Association of Ukraine" is a voluntary, self-governing public organization founded on the basis of the common interests of practitioners and scholars, public and religious leaders who have experience in thesphere of the criminal law, criminology, psychology, pedagogy, criminal-executive law, social work, protection of the rights of the personnel and prisoners and of the criminal-executive bodies and its territorial sub-units, which implementthe state policy in the sphere of enforcing the court sentences. We cooperate with the charitable, public, religious and otherorganizations. The Association is aimed to promote their consolidation, mutual understanding and active cooperation for realization of the tasks, envisaged by the Statute of the Penitentiary Association of Ukraine.