Título V. Redención de penas

Penalties of deprivation of liberty, including that arising from the conversion of the penalty of fine, imposed in a final judgment, may be redeemed through education and useful and/or productive work, in accordance with the respective regulation. The Penitentiary System shall provide adequate conditions for incarcerated persons to develop work and/or studies aimed at redemption.

The redemption of penalties shall be one day for every two days of education or useful and/or productive work, or one of education and one of work.

The presentation of certificates of approval of special literacy cycles or completion of the primary cycle in the penal center gives rise to supplementary recognition of a reduction of ninety days, once, in the service of the sentence.

Control and record of study and work shall be carried out as infractions under this law, duly proven. This shall be done through the Subdirectorate of Social Rehabilitation, which shall issue such reports as may be necessary for the application of the redemption of penalties.

The execution judge shall hear and decide the files for redemption of penalties submitted for his consideration by the Director General of the Penitentiary System, based on the opinion issued by the National Commission for Comprehensive Health, Education and Work. Likewise, he shall issue the release orders for those benefited under this regime.

Persons who are in any of the following cases shall not be able to enjoy the benefit of redemption of penalties:

a)Those who, by means of a report of the Multidisciplinary Treatment Team, have been declared offenders of high social dangerousness;

b)Those who do not observe good conduct during service of the sentence, as indicated by the reports of the Subdirectorate of Social Rehabilitation;

c)Those who attempt to breach the judgment, by attempting escape or evasion, whether or not they achieve their purpose;

d)When in a final judgment the limitation of this benefit has been ordered; and,

e)When, due to the type of crime, the law expressly indicates the prohibition of redemption of the penalty.

No decision may be issued on the request for the benefit of redemption of penalties filed by convicted persons against whom their participation in other criminal acts is pending resolution by judicial authority.