Regarding a juvenile sentenced to imprisonment (excluding a person serving their sentence at a juvenile training school pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3)), the sentence is executed in a specially established penal institution or a specially partitioned area in a penal institution or detention facility.
The execution pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may be continued until the juvenile in question reaches 26 years of age.
本人が二十六歳に達するまでは、前項の規定による執行を継続することができる。
Notwithstanding the provisions in Article 12, paragraph (2) of the Penal Code, a juvenile under 16 years of age sentenced to imprisonment may serve their sentence at a juvenile training school until they reach 16 years of age. In this case, correctional education is given to the juvenile.
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juvenile
「少年」
In this Act, a person under 20 years of age.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
imprisonment
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.