The sentence enforcement judge sets the main terms and conditions for the enforcement of custodial sentences or certain sentences restricting freedom by guiding and monitoring the conditions of their enforcement, in accordance with the principles laid down by article 707.
To this end, he is assisted by the Sentence Enforcement Commission, as well as by the Penitentiary Integration and Probation Service, which the magistrate mandates to monitor convicts subject to a custodial sentence.
The sentence enforcement judge carries out the tasks entrusted to him, in particular by determining, for each convicted offender, the main terms and conditions of prison treatment, in compliance with the powers of the inter-regional director of prison services and the heads of prisons relating to the organisation and operation of these establishments.