I.-The situation of any convicted person serving one or more custodial sentences of a total duration of less than or equal to five years must be examined by the sentence enforcement judge with a view to ordering compulsory release when the length of the sentence served is at least equal to twice the length of the sentence still to be served. Compulsory release means that the remainder of the sentence…
In misdemeanour cases, where the convicted person still has to serve a prison sentence of two years or less, this sentence may, for medical, family, professional or social reasons and for a period not exceeding four years, be suspended or served in instalments, none of which may be less than two days. The decision is taken by the sentence enforcement judge under the conditions set out in article 712-6. This…
Unless there is a serious risk that the offence will be repeated, suspension may also be ordered, regardless of the nature of the sentence or the length of the sentence remaining to be served, and for a period that need not be specified, for convicts who are found to be suffering from a life-threatening condition or whose physical or mental health is permanently incompatible with continued detention. Suspension may only…
The provisions concerning the suspension or splitting of the sentence, work release, temporary absences, semi-liberty and conditional release are not applicable during the period of security provided for in article 132-23 of the Penal Code. Unless otherwise decided by the pardon decree, the commutation or remission of a custodial sentence with a security period automatically entails the continuation of this period for an overall period corresponding to half of the…
Where the convicted person is serving several sentences which are not concurrent and all of which carry a security period, these security periods are served cumulatively and continuously. In the case of concurrent sentences that all include periods of imprisonment, the total period of imprisonment to be served is reduced by a maximum of two-thirds of these sentences after they have been reduced to the legal maximum. If a sentence…
When the sentenced person shows serious signs of social rehabilitation, the sentence enforcement court may, exceptionally and under the conditions provided by Article 712-7, decide that the security period provided for by Article 132-23of the Penal Code be terminated or its duration reduced. However, where the Assize Court has decided to increase the security period to thirty years pursuant to the provisions of the last paragraph of Articles 221-3 and…
By way of derogation from the first paragraph of Article 720-4 of this Code, where the Assize Court has decided, pursuant to Article 421-7 of the Criminal Code, to increase the security period to thirty years or that none of the measures listed in Article 132-23 of the same code could not be granted to a person sentenced to life imprisonment, the sentence enforcement court, on the advice of a…
A reduction in sentence may be granted by the sentence enforcement judge, following the opinion of the sentence enforcement commission, to convicts serving one or more custodial sentences who have given sufficient evidence of good conduct and who have shown serious efforts to reintegrate. This reduction may not exceed six months per year of imprisonment and fourteen days per month for a period of imprisonment of less than one year….
In the event that a sentence handed down abroad is enforced in the territory of the Republic, the reductions in sentence granted prior to the enforcement of the sentence in France shall be retained by the convicted person insofar as they were granted in respect of the period of detention served abroad. .
Persons sentenced to a custodial sentence for one or more of the offences mentioned in articles 421-1 to 421-6 of the Penal Code, excluding those defined in articles 421-2-5 to 421-2-5-2 of the same code, may not benefit from the reductions in sentence mentioned in Article 721 of this code only up to a maximum of three months per year of imprisonment and seven days per month for a period…
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