Swiss Criminal Code

¹ The cus­todi­al sen­tence is ex­ecuted in the form of day re­lease em­ploy­ment if the pris­on in­mate has served part of the cus­todi­al sen­tence, nor­mally a min­im­um one half, and it is not ex­pec­ted that he will ab­scond or com­mit fur­ther of­fences.

² In day re­lease em­ploy­ment, the pris­on in­mate works out­side the in­sti­tu­tion and spends his rest and leis­ure time in the in­sti­tu­tion. The change to day re­lease em­ploy­ment nor­mally takes place fol­low­ing an ap­pro­pri­ate peri­od spent in an open in­sti­tu­tion or the open sec­tion of a se­cure in­sti­tu­tion. Work out­side the in­sti­tu­tion may also in­clude house­work and caring for chil­dren.

³ If the pris­on in­mate proves him­self to be of good be­ha­viour in day re­lease em­ploy­ment, the fur­ther ex­e­cu­tion of the sen­tence takes the form of ex­tern­al ac­com­mod­a­tion and day re­lease em­ploy­ment. Here the pris­on in­mate lives and works out­side the in­sti­tu­tion, but re­mains un­der the su­per­vi­sion of the ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­ity.