Traduction de «Peine d'emprisonnement réduite » (Français → Anglais) :

custodial penalty | custodial sanction | custodial sentence | deprivation of liberty | imprisonment | incarceration

indeterminate sentence [ sentence of detention for an indeterminate period ]

short-term sentence of imprisonment

imprisonment term [ term of imprisonment ]

alternative to imprisonment

suspended prison sentence

sentence of imprisonment | imprisonment

fitness to withstand detention

B. whereas under Article 9 of that law drivers may not stay inside their vehicles during normal weekly rest periods, failure to comply being punishable by one year’s imprisonment and a EUR 300 000 fine for the owners of the road haulage firm concerned; whereas these provisions will be severely damaging in terms both of security, as hauliers might have to leave loaded vehicles unattended, and of road safety, given that it is difficult to find suitable parking places for heavy goods vehicles; whereas, leaving that point aside, Article 8(8) of Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 on dr ...[+++]iving and rest periods stipulates that ‘where a driver chooses to do this, daily rest periods and reduced weekly rest periods away from base may be taken in a vehicle, as long as it has suitable sleeping facilities for each driver and the vehicle is stationary’;

Mr. Speaker, the independent Parliamentary Budget Officer's report is unequivocal on the government's irresponsible prisons agenda and conditional sentencing: skyrocketing costs, ineffective results and fewer offenders will be convicted and will actually serve less time.

(5) Where, at any time, a person who is imprisoned in a prison or place of confinement other than a penitentiary is subject to two or more terms of imprisonment, each of which is for less than two years, that are to be served one after the other, and the aggregate of the unexpired portions of those terms at that time amounts to two years or more, the person shall be transferred to a penitentiary to serve those terms, but if any one or more of such terms is set aside or reduced and the unexpired portions of the remaining term or terms on the day on which that person was transferred under this section amounted to less than two years, that ...[+++]person shall serve that term or terms in accordance with subsection (3).

It also restricts the availability of conditional sentences for all offences for which the maximum term of imprisonment is 14 years or life and for specified offences, prosecuted by way of indictment, for which the maximum term of imprisonment is 10 years.