Swiss Criminal Code

¹ At the of­fend­er’s re­quest, a cus­todi­al sen­tence of no more than 12 months or the re­mainder of a sen­tence after tak­ing ac­count of time spent on re­mand of no more than six months may be served in the form of semi-de­ten­tion provided:

a.

it is not an­ti­cip­ated that the of­fend­er will ab­scond or com­mit fur­ther of­fences; and

b.

the of­fend­er does reg­u­lated work or train­ing or is sim­il­arly oc­cu­pied for at least 20 hours a week.

² The pris­on in­mate works, is trained or sim­il­arly oc­cu­pied out­side the in­sti­tu­tion and spends his rest and leis­ure time in the in­sti­tu­tion.

³ Semi-de­ten­tion may be served in a spe­cial sec­tion of a re­mand centre provided the of­fend­er is guar­an­teed the re­quired su­per­vi­sion.

⁴ If the of­fend­er no longer meets the au­thor­isa­tion re­quire­ments or if he fails to com­ply with the con­di­tions of semi-de­ten­tion im­posed by the ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­ity des­pite be­ing warned to do so, the cus­todi­al sen­tence shall be served in the nor­mal man­ner.