Article 29
ELI5— what this means for you
Time spent in jail before conviction (preventive imprisonment) is deducted from the sentence — BUT only if the detainee agreed in writing to abide by the same rules as convicted prisoners. Otherwise, only 4/5 of the time is credited.
Official text — Act No. 3815
One-half of the period of the preventive imprisonment deducted from term of imprisonment.
-Offenders who nave undergone preventive imprisonment shall be credited in the service of their sentences consisting of deprivation of liberty, with one-half of the time during which they have undergone preventive imprisonment, except in the following cases:
1. When they are recidivists, or have been convicted previously twice or more times of any crime;
2. When upon being summoned for the execution of their sentence they have failed to surrender voluntarily;
3. When they have been convicted of robbery, theft, estafa, malversation of public funds, falsification, vagrancy, or prostitution.
SECTION TWO.-Effects of the penalties according to their respective nature
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