One of the modifications it has undergone the bill amending various rules in the penitentiary and penal field in the parliamentary procedure it is related to the reduction of penalties for good behavior. Both Democrats and PS had submitted amendments to the initial article eremoving the 3 days per month included in the text approved by the Government: DA proposed 3.5 and PS, a maximum of 5. The transaction agreed and validated unanimously leave the number at 4. Specifically, it is established that “when it comes to custodial sentences of more than one month completed in Andorra, the court or court competent to execute the sentence or the criminal ordinance may, ex officio or at the proposal of the director of the Penitentiary Center, after the previous report of the Public Prosecutor, agree to a reduction of the sentence for the prisoner’s good behavior and collaboration in the Centre’s activities. This reduction can be up to 4 days per month of permanent imprisonment or complete arrest in the Penitentiary Center calculated on the firm penalty imposed, provided that the inmate has followed, effectively and satisfactorily, the therapeutic, reinsertion or resocialization programs that have been proposed to him”. In the rest of the cases, the limit is 3 days per month of permanent imprisonment or complete arrest at the Penitentiary Center calculated on the firm penalty imposed, also higher than the 2.5 of the initial text and the result of the contributions and agreement of the groups.
One of the central issues of the bill is the reduction of preventive prison termsan issue widely claimed by groups such as lawyers. The terms initially approved in the executive project they remain unchanged with the exception of once the case is referred to the trial court; a Democrats’ amendment validated by a majority after a trade-off reduces them. Specifically, the bill that will be voted on in the Council session scheduled for Tuesday that comes explicit that in case of a misdemeanorand once the file is in the hands of the court that will judge it, imprisonment cannot exceed three months. If they are major crimes, the limit is nine months and 18, if there is an appeal. In the initial text it was six months for minor crimes and 12 for major ones.
