Electronic Monitoring by Tom Daems

Author:Tom Daems
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030340391
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Harm Reduction

The Belgian prison law of 12 January 2005 explicitly recognises that depriving people of their freedom is harmful: ‘When enforcing the custodial sentence or the custodial measure, avoidable damage due to detention must be prevented’ (Art. 6, para 2). In the report of the Committee that prepared a first draft text for this prison law this is explained as follows:Because the enforcement of a custodial sentence, despite all good intentions from anyone, involves a predictable risk of causing more damage than useful effects, a primary task must be to prevent damage due to detention or at least to reduce it as much as possible, both in terms of defining the function, working methods and attitudes of enforcement officers, as well as in the organisation of prisons, the elaboration of the penitentiary regime, the modalities of enforcement and early release. (Chamber of Representatives 2001: 68–69)

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