The Sentence Enforcement Judge and the Sentence Enforcement Court constitute the first-level sentence enforcement courts, which are responsible, under the conditions laid down by law, for setting the main terms and conditions for the enforcement of custodial sentences or certain sentences restricting freedom, by guiding and monitoring the conditions under which they are enforced. These courts are informed by the integration and probation services of the procedures for dealing with convicted persons, defined and implemented by these services. They may make any changes they deem necessary to strengthen supervision of the enforcement of the sentence.
The decisions of the Sentence Enforcement Judge and the Sentence Enforcement Court may be appealed. The appeal shall be brought, according to the distinctions provided for in this chapter, before the enforcement of sentences chamber of the court of appeal, composed of a chamber president and two councillors, or before the president of that chamber.