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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Courts dealing with secure detention

Article R53-8-41

Decisions by the regional court for secure detention may be appealed to the national court for secure detention, which must be lodged within ten days of their notification either by the person concern…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Security surveillance

Article R53-8-49

The person placed under secure supervision is supervised by the sentence enforcement judge in whose jurisdiction the person is ordinarily resident, assisted by the prison integration and probation ser…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Courts dealing with secure detention

Article R53-8-40

…during which the public prosecutor, the person concerned and his or her lawyer shall be heard. The decisions of the regional court are notified, as appropriate, by the director of the prison or his d…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIV - GEOLOCALISATION

Article R53-40-1

The separate file and register provided for in article 230-40 shall be kept by the president of the judicial court or the judge delegated by him. They may only be communicated to the liberty and custo…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Special provisions applicable to persons serving a custodial sentence

Article R61-4-1

…either finds that the sentenced person will be subject to a treatment order, or orders, by express decision, that there is no need for a treatment order.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Enforcement of pre-trial detention

Article R57-5-4

The reasoned decision to place a person in judicial segregation or to extend the measure may be included in the detention order or the order extending detention, or may be the subject of a separate or…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Processing of personal data relating to the enforcement of sentences

Article R57-4-1

…nterconnection or linking with other processing are determined by the provisions of articles R. 113-49 et seq. of the Penitentiary Code.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIV - GEOLOCALISATION

Article R53-40-3

…dge does not grant the investigating judge's request, this request, the liberty and custody judge's decision, the public prosecutor's opinion and, where applicable, the investigators' report are place…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIV - GEOLOCALISATION

Article R53-40-2

The separate file authorised by the liberty and custody judge includes the documents he lists, the investigating judge's request, the public prosecutor's opinion and, where applicable, the investigato…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Recording data in the directory

Article R53-21-4

…on communicated to the criminal records department in accordance with the provisions of article R. 64..

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