[The maternity and childhood care in penal executive system of Russia]

The Russian Federation pays particular attention to maternity and children care. During the last three years, slight decreasing of number of women held in detention together with children of tender age was marked. This tendency is related to policy of humanization of penalty determination and execution of punishment. At that, number of women with pregnancy at the moment of adjudgement of conviction of court increases. Annually, 3% of women residing in institutions of penal executive system are observed because of pregnancy that results with delivery in curative preventive institutions of the penal executive system in 35% and in medical institutions of municipal and state health care systems in 65% of cases. The newborns of women serving a sentence by way of deprivation of freedom enter Home of Child. The Federal penitentiary service of Russia comprise 13 Homes of Child in female correctional institutions where about 700 children are brought up. The article considers issues of development of organization of medical sanitary support of children of tender age in homes of Child of the penal executive system.