MEPs vote in favour of short prison sentences and go back to accommodation

A proposal for a law, considered in the context of the Horizons Group's parliamentary niche on Thursday, restores the possibility of imposing prison sentences of less than one month and repeals the principle that a sentence of less than or equal to six months must be subject to an arrangement.

The text of the Horizons group, the party of Edward Philippe, candidate for 2027, thus restores the possibility of imposing prison sentences of less than a month.

On Thursday, April 3, 2025, MPs adopted a text to make incarceration the rule rather than the exception by returning to the mandatory arrangement of short sentences of imprisonment. The bill was considered at first reading in the framework of the parliamentary niche of the Horizons group.

A controversial vote has just changed the conditions of imprisonment, favouring detention rather than the adjustments of sentences for the lightest convictions. The National Assembly has adopted a bill aimed at abolishing the obligation to automatically arrange prison sentences of less than six months. From now on, judges will again be able to pronounce firm imprisonments for [...] Article Prisons: MPs tighten the rules for the execution of shor…