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defined funds that are not be subject to attachment and permitted
application of this procedure without exceeding quarter of the
salary and but stipulated that it was not allowable regarding
residence (if it was the only residence).
Guarantees for Implementing Criminal Judgments
The convict in a crime is the one who has infringed upon the
sanctity of the community and broken its laws which its
legislative authority had enacted, thus mandating his penalty.
Crimes perpetrated by those criminals such as murder, theft,
narcotics crimes and terrorism seriously threaten and undermine
the security and stability of the society for representing assault on
lawfully-protected rights.
However we should not be in oblivion as to the fact that this
criminal is a human whose human rights must be duly respected;
as perhaps he may not have been responsible for the conditions
that led to his commitment of crime and that it may be in the
interest of the society that this criminal becomes a righteous
person after serving his sentence. This has prompted the Libyan
legislator to call prisons "reform and rehabilitation institutions",
thus delegating the power of supervising these institutions to the
Public Prosecution and oversight judges in addition to
transferring the judicial police competence to the People's
General Committee on Justice.
Hence the following part is dwelt on the issue of oversight of
reform and rehabilitation institutions:
A- Inmates' Treatment in Reform and Rehabilitation
Institutions
Law no 5/2005, replacing Law no 47/1975 on prisons, regulates
the affairs of reform and rehabilitation institutions in the Great
Jamhirya.
This Law identifies reform and rehabilitation institutions as
places of reform and education intended to rectify and put right