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* Commutation of death penalty for its eventual abolition;
* Curbing of freedom-restricting penalties and their substitution
by financial penalty such as fines;
* Expansion in reconciliation bids for simple and medium-level
crimes (contraventions and misdemeanors) by paying an amount
of money to the victim or to the State in lieu of prison
sentences;
* Adoption of the idea of alternative sanctions by employing the
convict instead of jailing him;
* Affiliation of reform and rehabilitation institutions (prisons) to
the People's General Committee on Justice in administrative and
technical terms so as to have them placed under direct judicial
supervision to prevent abuse in treating prisoners.
All complementary laws were incorporated into the new draft
Penal Code for smooth reference.
As for Code of Criminal Procedure, it deals with rules regulating
functions of res judicata officers, evidence collection,
investigation and trial procedures as well as trial and detention
guarantees for the protection of human rights in the Great
Jamhirya.