This article examines the legal basis for executing imprisonment sentences. It analyzes the legal norms in implementing imprisonment and the criteria related to their execution. The paper focuses on improving national criminal enforcement legislation, considering the practices in the imprisonment sentence execution system, its role in combating crime, the importance of legal protection mechanisms, and existing legal gaps, while taking into account foreign experience. It also addresses problems in executing imprisonment sentences and ways to enhance the necessary legal mechanisms for their resolution.

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In the Uzbek translations of international normative documents, the word "mahbus" is used, which in most cases is used in a broad international sense in relation to persons held in custody until the court's verdict enters into legal force, and convicts serving sentences by a court verdict that has entered into legal force.

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Collision (from Lat. collisio - contradiction, collision) - a conflict between characters in a work of art and between characters and conditions, environment.

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