The convict’s right to travel without escorts or accompanying outside the prison is governed by art. 235 of the criminal code of the Republic of Moldova and the Statute on execution of criminal sentences by convicted persons. This law encourages the persons sentenced to appropriate behavior and the correction and reeducation by labour. At the same time, the right of movement or accompanying unescorted outside the prison is granted by the head of the penitentiary institution only where the prison service is needed, and work performed by convicted penitentiary service requires such a move outside the prison. The conditions and manner of enfranchisement convict to travel unescorted or accompanying outside the prison will be described in the present article through the prism of elucidation of the legal and theoretical approaches concerning this right.