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Enforcement of Sentences Act. Extracts (No. 647).

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Türkiye
Criminal and penal law
1965-07-13
National
Law, Act

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Section 1 establishes different types of sentences: death, restriction of personal liberty, and fines. Section 2 provides for enforcement of death penalty. Section 17 sets forth obligation of prisoners to work, and regulates its modalities. Prisoners and convicts shall be paid wages to be determined by Ministry of Justice. Ministry of Justice may set up work crews in field of work such as agriculture, fishery, construction, mining and forestry. Public insitutions employing workers shall be required to employ convicts in their respective field of work. Convicts detained in low and medium security prisons, as well as those convicts in maximum-security prisons who have demonstrated good conduct for at leat one-fourth of their prison sentence, shall participate in work crews.

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    2 p.