Changes on a date not yet set (Act No. 46 of 2026)
A person who has received the pronouncement of a judgment to impose imprisonment or a greater punishment, or the defense counsel, legal representative, curator, spouse, lineal relative or sibling of that person, may file a request for the permission under the preceding Article.
拘禁刑以上の刑に処する判決の宣告を受けた者又はその弁護人、法定代理人、保佐人、配偶者、直系の親族若しくは兄弟姉妹は、前条の許可の請求をすることができる。
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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.