After the lax trial, that of severity. In the foreword to her press kit preceding her annual report, which is due in June, Dominique Simonnot, the Comptroller General of Places of Deprivation of Liberty, points to those responsible for the intolerable situation in French prisons. Among others, "magistrates who too often give in to the ease of locking up". The style of the former journalist of the Canard enchaîné who frequented the courtrooms so much has lost its nuance.
Because this gratuitous sentence is so far from the reality of the courts and from what the successive criminal laws have imposed for thirty years. Let's try to be specific. Since the law of 15 August 2014, the sentence of suspended imprisonment "can only be pronounced as a last resort (...) and if any other sanction is manifestly inadequate" and that this penalty - up to a certain quantum, today six months of imprisonment - must be arranged in the form of a bracelet ...
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