INTERNATIONAL LEGAL CHALLENGES IN THE REFORM OF PENITENTIARY SYSTEM IN ALBANIA

To make an objective analysis regarding how criminal sanctions actually executed in Albania, we have to deal with many components that have to do not only with the reading of laws and regulations applicable at this stage of the procedure, but the study also adopt EU & Hague instruments. The albanian penal sanction such as criminal code- life imprisonment and the opportunities that International Court of Hague and EU reccomandation offer as an innovative escalation during a very difficult period. It is always a matter related to critical reviews of legislation, how contemporary reality penal sanctions against persons convicted are according to the legal basis for the execution of criminal sanctions as well as relevant surveys conducted at institutions penitentiary in Albania in sveral circumstances. Some reports are being monitoring the results of penitentiary system with the implementation of the suggestions of international partners; That’s for a reason that the Albanian law on the punishment of life imprisonment presents serious problems in the modalities of execution of the punishment, violating the right and fundamental freedom of man, that lives in liberty, and break up the Article 3 of the ECHR, which prohibits placing under cruel punishments, inhuman and degrading.Albania in these critical points lack improvements which we hope we can bring in your sight