Paragraph 5: Permission to leave

Persons sentenced to one or more custodial sentences of a total duration not exceeding five years and persons sentenced to one or more custodial sentences of a total duration exceeding five years when they have served half of their sentence may be granted temporary absences of up to three days on the occasion of the serious illness or death of a member of their close family, or the birth of…

When the sentence enforcement judge grants a leave to go out with a view to preparing the convicted person’s professional or social reintegration, he may in his order decide that the date and terms of execution of the leave will be set by the director of the prison integration and probation service, after consulting the head of the prison. The sentence enforcement judge may, in the same order, grant several…