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Preventive detention is an imprisonment that is putatively justified for non-punitive purposes, most often to prevent further criminal acts. Preventive detention sometimes involves the detention of a convicted criminal who has served their sentence but is considered too dangerous to release.
Pre-trial detention, also known as jail, preventive detention, provisional detention, or remand, is the process of detaining a person until their trial after they have been arrested and charged with an offence. A person who is on remand is held in a prison or detention centre or held under house arrest.
Preventive detention has a minimum period of imprisonment of five years, but the sentencing judge can extend that if the nature of the prisoner's offending or the prisoner's criminal history warrants it. The longest minimum period of imprisonment on a sentence of preventive detention is one of 28 years, which was given in 1984. [7]
Unlike imprisonment, there is no work, but, as with imprisonment, the warden of the penal institution may permit work to be carried out if the prisoner requests that he or she wishes to do so [5]. Previously, Article 16 of the Criminal Code simply provided that ‘detention shall last not less than one day and not more than 30 days and shall be ...
A preventive state is a type of sovereign state or policy enacted by a state in which people deemed potentially dangerous are apprehended, ...
Alexei Nikolaevich and his sister Tatiana Nikolaevna surrounded by guards during their house arrest in Tsarskoye Selo, April 1917. House arrest (also called home confinement, or electronic monitoring) is a legal measure where a person is required to remain at their residence under supervision, typically as an alternative to imprisonment.
A pair of Mount Vernon men caught a break after getting nabbed on serious gun charges in the Bronx, getting referred to a “gun diversion” program instead of facing serious time behind bars.
Protective custody (PC) is a type of imprisonment (or care) to protect a person from harm, either from outside sources or other prisoners. [1] Many prison administrators believe the level of violence, or the underlying threat of violence within prisons, is a chief factor causing the need for PC units.