Section 3: Security period

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…