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Amendments To The Latvian Code On Execution Of Punishments

Original Language Title: Grozījumi Latvijas Sodu izpildes kodeksā

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The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: the amendments to the Penal Procedure Code of Latvia in Latvia in the Penal Procedure Code as follows: 1. Article 5: turn off the first part of paragraph 2; off in the third paragraph, the words "or seizure". 2. in article 15: to supplement the article with the new second and third subparagraph by the following: "the prisons administration within three working days from the day of receipt of the order of the Court for the enforcement of the judgment and a copy of the judgment, send a registered letter to the person sentenced to short-term imprisonment and which at the time of the entry into force of a judgment or passed out, not in custody, the letter indicating the custodial authority and time When a person must come to the short-term custodial sentence, as well as informing the person of the Criminal Code establishes liability for the avoidance of parole. The period between the date of dispatch of the letter and the date of commencement of sentence shall not be less than ten working days. If a temporary prison convict fail to come to the prison facility short-term custodial sentence, prison authorities sent State police chiefs to submission, to decide the question of criminal proceedings. " consider the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth respectively on the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth. 3. Add to article 18 of the fourth paragraph as follows: "persons sentenced to short-term imprisonment, held separately from the rest of the convicts, subject to this article, first paragraph, first sentence, however, they are permitted to engage in spiritual care and resocializācij activities with the other convicts." 4. Article 45: to supplement the first subparagraph following the words "convicted to imprisonment" with the words "except with the temporary imprisonment of convicted"; to supplement the article with a new second subparagraph by the following: "with a temporary imprisonment convicted in accordance with the procedure laid down in this code and have opportunities to meet with relatives and other persons without custodial institutions of a representative temporarily, for a period of one to two hours to promote socially useful links conservation and restoration." consider the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh respectively on the part of third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth. 5. Supplement article 47 the third part with the sentence the following wording: "with the temporary imprisonment of convicts are allowed to receive one shipment or contributions per month or one shipment or contributions during the execution of the penalty, if it is shorter than a month." 6. in article 50.1: make the second paragraph as follows: "the penalty enforcement system is the frontier subject all inmates except with a temporary imprisonment convicted."; to supplement the article with the third part as follows: "penal inmates of penal regime started in the lowest grade, except with a temporary imprisonment of convicted and convicted that the Court does not served the penalty, forced labour or a fine — replaced by a penalty involving deprivation of liberty. With the temporary imprisonment of inmates and inmates who served the court fine, forced labour or a fine — replaced by a penalty involving deprivation of liberty, the penalty of being served only partly closed prison sentence mode the uttermost. " 7.50.3 article: make the first part of the second sentence as follows: "those convicted in open prisons and correctional institutions for minors execution mode determines the grade." Supplement to the fifth article as follows: "this article provides for penal regime in a gradual relaxation of the reinforcement or movement, sentenced does not apply to those convicted with a temporary deprivation of liberty." 8. Express 50.4 sixth article by the following: "the Convicted to imprisonment for life (life imprisonment), excluding women, deployable separate custodial institutions housing with increased monitoring, preventing contact with the prisoners who have not been convicted for life. The procedure for keeping and monitoring convicted to imprisonment for life (life imprisonment) down custodial institutions internal rules. " 9. in article 50.5: turn off the first part of paragraph 3, the words "or criminal"; Replace paragraph 4 of the first paragraph, the words "for longer than five years" with the words "more than three but no more than eight years"; Add to article 10 by the following: "with a temporary custodial convicts have the right to: 1) use at least an hour long temporary meeting not less than once a month, but not less than one brief meeting during the execution of a fine, if it is shorter than a month; 2) prison store to shop for the amount of money one of the Cabinet's minimum monthly salary; 3) use six calls a month; 4) use the rights provided for in this code, the seventh subparagraph of article 50.4 5., 6., 7., 8., paragraphs 9 and 10. " 10. in the first subparagraph of article 50.6: turn off paragraph 1; in paragraph 2, replace the word "five" with the word "three"; 3. turn off the point. 11. in article 50.7: Add to the article with a new second subparagraph by the following: "correctional institutions for minors serving temporary imprisonment of male minors sentenced, while the female minor penalties being served the women's prison in separate chapters, arranged according to the requirements of the education authorities put minors. To these persons under this article the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth parts. '; consider the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth respectively on the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth. 12. the seventh chapter by supplementing article 50.8 as follows: "article 50.8. The application of special means those convicted to imprisonment for life (life imprisonment) custodial institutions in the territory of the convicted to imprisonment for life (life imprisonment) during a custodial authority may apply to the territory of the special feature, handcuffs, if the person during this time may compromise the accompanying employees or there is a reasonable suspicion of a possible escape of the sentenced. Each with deprivation of liberty for life (life imprisonment) sentenced the hazards and move him during the custodial authorities applicable in the territory of the special feature: the handcuffs — the need to assess the custodial authority Chief created the Commission. Panelists include on social rehabilitation of prisoners, monitoring, security, and responsible for the medical care of the chiefs and prison psychologists who work with persons sentenced to deprivation of liberty for life (life imprisonment). The Commission each to imprisonment for life (life imprisonment) sentenced valued no less than once every six months. The Commission at the hearing on-being listened to the views of the sentenced. The Commission's decision to convict may challenge the prison administration chief. Prison Administration Chief's decision may not be appealed. " 13. To complement the 56.5 the second subparagraph with the following sentence: "with the temporary imprisonment of inmates working in the penitentiary institutions in the territory." 14. Supplement article 61.5 to fifth the following: "with a temporary custodial sentenced risks and needs identified during the two weeks after his insertion into the penitentiary penal institution." 15. in article 61.6: Supplement to the second part of the article as follows: "the first part does not apply to sentenced to short-term imprisonment, but information about his participation in the activities of the recordable resocializācij the sentenced person."; believe the current text of article about the first part. 16. To supplement the ninth chapter 38.3 "A" with the following article: article 38.3 ". Sentenced to imprisonment for life (life imprisonment) resocializācij features convicted to imprisonment for life (life imprisonment) to organize joint resocializācij activities one penal regime within the degree or the assessment of the safety considerations, together with the persons sentenced to deprivation of liberty for life (life imprisonment) and fine served in other penal regime levels. The deprivation of liberty for life (life imprisonment) notiesātaj women are organised with the other notiesātaj, the penalty being served the relevant penal regime, common resocializācij measures. " 17. Adding to the tenth chapter of 67.1 article as follows: "article 67.1. With a temporary custodial sentenced involvement education learning and social behavior adjustment measures

With a temporary deprivation of liberty without involving the convicted General or vocational learning, but possible, to organize educational events of interest and involvement of social behaviour correction programs. Minors ensure compulsory education. " 18. off the sixth section. 19. Replace article 133 in the second paragraph, the word "arrest" by the words "temporary deprivation of liberty". 20. Article 134: replace the second subparagraph of paragraph 8, the word "arrest" by the words "temporary imprisonment"; replace the third paragraph, the word "is" with the word "is". 21. Replace article 138, first and second paragraph, the words "arrest" by the words "temporary deprivation of liberty". 22. Article 147: Add to the article with the new fourth subparagraph by the following: "If the conditional sentencing case convict of the entry into force of the judgment are returnees from the Republic of Latvia, the Court judgment shall immediately send a copy of the National Guard and citizenship and Migration Affairs Administration."; believe the current article's fourth on the fifth. 23. the transitional provisions: off 2; Express 17 the following: "17. Persons who served the court fine, forced labour or a fine — replaced with arrest after 1 April 2013, the entry into force of the amendments to the criminal law, the arrest of serving partially closed prison sentence mode the uttermost."; transitional provisions be supplemented by the following paragraph 26:26. Penalty enforcement authority in accordance with the amendments to the criminal law, which shall enter into force on 1 April 2013, the month of the application submitted to the Court on the person's release from parole or for the amendment of the judgment, or on conditional sentencing in the cancellation. Criminal penalties: forced labor — the execution to the consideration of the application for judicial review is stopped. " The law shall enter into force on 1 April 2013. The Parliament adopted the law of 20 December, 2012. The President a. Smith in 2013 on January 9.