The draft law proposes to define legal grounds for release under amnesty of persons from serving criminal punishment, the mechanism of interaction between criminal executive service and state government and local self-government bodies.
According to the draft law, the main criteria for application of amnesty are
- Insignificant public danger of acts committed by a person serving a sentence;
- Objective factors (serious illness, elderly age, etc.), which significantly reduce the danger of persons proposed to be released from serving the sentence;
- Significant term of the sentence already served by a convicted person at the time of announcing amnesty.
The draft law proposes to announce amnesty and spread it primarily on those categories of convicts who committed minor crimes or are the most vulnerable in social terms, namely the under-aged; women and men having under-aged children, children with disabilities; pregnant women; war veterans, disabled of first, second and third groups; people with tuberculosis or cancer, etc.
According to the draft law, the issue of amnesty application is decided exclusively by court on the initiative of a prosecutor, body or institution of punishment execution, and on the initiative of the accused or convicted, their lawyers or legal representatives.
Respective draft law was registered under No. 2118.