Chapter II: Courts for the enforcement of sentences

The sentence enforcement judge may issue a warrant to bring in a convicted offender under his supervision if the latter fails to comply with the obligations incumbent upon him. If the convicted person is a fugitive or resides abroad, the judge may issue an arrest warrant. The issue of the arrest warrant suspends, until it is executed, the time limit for the execution of the sentence or accommodation measures. In…

In the event of non-compliance with the obligations incumbent on a convicted offender subject to a semi-liberty measure, external placement or home detention under electronic surveillance, the sentence enforcement judge may, after consulting the public prosecutor, order the suspension of the measure. Failing the adversarial debate provided for by Article 712-6 within a period of fifteen days following the sentenced person’s incarceration that results from this suspension, the person shall…

In the event of non-compliance with the obligations incumbent on a convicted offender subject to a sentence of home detention under electronic surveillance, a probationary suspended sentence, a suspended sentence with an obligation to perform community service, socio-judicial monitoring, judicial supervision, a suspended or split sentence or conditional release, the sentence enforcement judge may order, after consulting the public prosecutor, the provisional incarceration of the convicted offender. The same applies…

A violation by the convicted person of the obligations to which he or she is subject, committed during the period of enforcement of one of the measures, including probation, mentioned in articles 712-6 and 712-7 may give rise to the extension, revocation or withdrawal of the measure after its expiry date when the competent sentencing judge or court has been seized or has been seized for this purpose no later…

The measures mentioned in articles 712-5,712-6 and 712-7, with the exception of reductions in sentence not leading to immediate release and escorted leave authorisations, may not be granted without a prior psychiatric assessment to a person who has been sentenced to socio-judicial supervision. This expertise is carried out by two experts when the person has been sentenced for the murder, assassination or rape of a minor under the age of…

When deciding whether to grant one of the measures provided for in Articles 712-6 and 712-7, the sentence enforcement courts may in the same judgment, at the request of the convicted person, relieve him or her in whole or in part, including as regards duration, of a prohibition resulting ipso jure from a criminal conviction or imposed as an additional penalty, either from holding a public office or a professional…

When a person placed under the supervision of the sentence enforcement judge has been convicted of a crime or an offence mentioned in article 706-47, this judge may, ex officio or at the request of the public prosecutor, order that a copy of the sentencing decision or the decision to adjust the sentence, of conditional release, judicial supervision or security surveillance is sent to the person with whom the convicted…

A decree shall specify the conditions of application of the provisions of this chapter. This decree specifies the conditions under which the expert opinion provided for by article 712-21 may not be ordered, with the agreement of the public prosecutor, either because of the existence in the convicted person’s file of a previous expert opinion, or, for persons convicted of offences for which it sets the list, in the event…