Chapter I: Enforcement of pre-trial detention

The investigating judge may decide to place an adult in judicial isolation at any time during the investigation procedure. When referring the matter to the liberty and custody judge for the purposes of remanding the person in custody or renewing the measure, the investigating judge may indicate in his order that he wishes the person to be subjected to or maintained in judicial isolation.

Judicial solitary confinement may be ordered by the liberty and custody judge when deciding whether to remand a person in custody or to extend that detention.

The examining magistrate or the liberty and custody judge shall specify the duration of the measure, which may not exceed that of the detention order, in the order by which he subjects a person to judicial isolation. If this is not specified, the duration is that of the detention order. These instructions are mentioned in the individual notice accompanying the detention order or, if the measure is decided at a…

The reasoned decision to place a person in judicial segregation or to extend the measure may be included in the detention order or the order extending detention, or may be the subject of a separate order. When the pre-trial detention of a person placed in judicial segregation is extended, the segregation measure ends immediately if it is not expressly renewed in the extension order or by a separate order made…

At any time during the information procedure, judicial isolation may be terminated by order of the investigating judge, acting ex officio, on the application of the public prosecutor, at the request of the head of the prison or at the request of the detainee. It may also be terminated by order of the liberty and custody judge, acting ex officio, on the application of the public prosecutor or at the…

The person placed in judicial isolation may at any time request that this measure be lifted by the investigating judge, in accordance with the procedures set out in articles 148-6 or 148-7.

The person shall be notified by any means of the order for placement in judicial isolation, renewal of this measure or refusal to terminate it. This order may be referred by the detainee to the president of the investigating chamber in accordance with the procedures set out in articles 148-6and 148-7.

The detainee placed in judicial isolation is subject to the detention regime provided for by articles R. 57-7-62 and R. 57-7-63.