This article discusses the features of the mental states of employees of a closed institution,the possibility of forming emotional relations of a mental phenomenon. One of the urgent problems is the study of the emotional sphere of the personality of employees of a closed institution in psychological science, considering the possibility of positive formation of emotional relationships with students. It is stated that emotional development depends on the content and structure of the subject's activity, the nature of communication with other people, the assimilation of the rules of behavior, is proved by experiment.

The aim of this research is due to the fact that: depending on the staff of functions, moral and mental training, prevention of abnormal relations, establishment of psychological contact with the prisoners, and the proper organization of their everyday life, positivity of the process of individual and group psychological work with inmates at the prison.