Swiss Criminal Code

¹ The ex­e­cu­tion of sen­tences must en­cour­age an im­prove­ment in the so­cial be­ha­viour of the pris­on in­mates, and in par­tic­u­lar their abil­ity to live their lives without of­fend­ing again. The con­di­tions un­der which sen­tences are ex­ecuted must cor­res­pond as far as pos­sible with those of nor­mal life, guar­an­tee the su­per­vi­sion of the pris­on in­mates, coun­ter­act the harm­ful con­sequences of the depriva­tion of liberty and take ap­pro­pri­ate ac­count of the need to pro­tect the gen­er­al pub­lic, the in­sti­tu­tion staff and oth­er in­mates.

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³ The in­sti­tu­tion rules shall provide that a sen­tence man­age­ment plan be drawn up in con­sulta­tion with the pris­on in­mate. This plan in par­tic­u­lar con­tains de­tails of the su­per­vi­sion offered, the op­por­tun­it­ies to work and re­ceive ba­sic or ad­vanced train­ing, mak­ing re­par­a­tion, re­la­tions with the out­side world and pre­par­a­tions for re­lease.

⁴ The pris­on in­mate must act­ively co­oper­ate in reso­cial­isa­tion ef­forts and the pre­par­a­tions for re­lease.

⁵ Ac­count is taken of the gender-spe­cif­ic con­cerns and needs of the pris­on in­mates.

⁶ If the pris­on in­mate is re­leased on pa­role or gran­ted fi­nal re­lease and it sub­sequently comes to light that on his re­lease he was sub­ject to an­oth­er ex­ecut­able judg­ment im­pos­ing a cus­todi­al sen­tence, ex­e­cu­tion of that cus­todi­al sen­tence is waived if:

a.

it was not ex­ecuted con­cur­rently with the oth­er cus­todi­al sen­tence for a reas­on with­in the con­trol of the ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­it­ies;

b.

the pris­on in­mate was able to as­sume in good faith that on his re­lease he was not sub­ject to an­oth­er ex­ecut­able judg­ment im­pos­ing a cus­todi­al sen­tence; and

c.

the re­in­teg­ra­tion of the pris­on in­mates would be pre­ju­diced.