The scientific publication is despite a large number of scientific works, that are devoted to the issues of execution and serving of sentences in the form of deprivation of liberty and, in particular, to the problems connected with provision the right of convicts to personal safety, need an in-depth and comprehensive development of such issues in the designated problem: the meaning of the concept of personal safety of convicts and its system-forming features; the ratio of domestic and international legal acts on the specified theme of research and the task of their harmonization among themselves; other aspects that make up the content of subject matter and the tasks of this scientific development (current state of provision, characteristic features and methods of committing of encroachments on the personal safety of convicts in correctional colonies; features and classification of convicts belonging to the risk groups of probable victims of criminal encroachments in correctional colonies, etc.).