GENERAL PART
SECTION FOUR. PENALTY AND ITS PURPOSE
CHAPTER 10. NOTION, PURPOSES AND TYPES OF PENALTY
Article 50. Imprisonment
Imprisonment shall be isolation of convicted through committing him to a colony of execution of penalty or a prison. Imprisonment shall be imposed for a term from six months to twenty years.
Imprisonment for up to twenty-five years may be imposed by joinder of penalties in the cases envisaged by Article 60 of this Code.
Imprisonment for men aged above sixty and women may not exceed three quarters of a maximum term of imprisonment envisaged by an appropriate Article of The Special Part of this Code. (As amended by the Law of 29.08.2001).
Penalty of imprisonment sentence for men shall be served:
a. for convicted for imprisonment for not socially dangerous, or less serious, or reckless crimes Ð in settled colonies;
b. for first-convicted for imprisonment for intentional less serious and serious crimes Ð in colonies of general security;
c. for convicted for specially serious crimes or previously served penalty of imprisonment for intentional crime and reconvicted for commission of an intentional crime Ð in colonies of high security;
d. for special dangerous recidivists Ð in colonies of high security. Persons, for whom capital punishment was commutated to imprisonment by an act of pardon, shall serve their sentence in colonies of high security as well.
Imprisonment sentence for women shall be served:
a. for specially serious crimes and after being recognized as special dangerous recidivists Ð in colonies of high security;
b. for not socially dangerous, or less serious, or reckless crimes Ð in settled colonies;
c. for other types of crimes Ð in colonies of general security.
(Paragraphs 5 and 6 Ð as amended by the Laws of 27.12.1996 and 29.08.2001)
Imprisonment by confinement in prison may be imposed on a part of the term of penalty not exceeding five years:
a. on special dangerous recidivists;
b. persons committed serious or especially serious crimes and convicted thereof for imprisonment for more than five years.
National penalties - maximum penalty
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