Council Law

The most remote antecedent in Cuba of legislative regulation on extra-prison penal control we found, it in the Law of Execution of Sanctions and Privative Safety measures of Freedom of 11 of April of 1936, the one that the Council created Superior of Social Defense and, in their article 16 conditionally conferred to the Council the function of monitoring and supervision of the conduct of the individuals under sent sanction, in accordance with the arranged thing in article 97 of the Code of Social Defense, the one that will exert exclusively by means of its Officials of Test, whose information will pass on to the respective Courts in the communities indicated to the effect. The test officials had the functions to visit with the advisable frequency and conditionally to obtain all class of information regarding the subject people to a sent sanction, to make sure if these people they observed or they met the conditions and prescriptions under which the freedom was granted to them, to investigate the conduct whom they will observe, the ways of life which they will have, and whatever antecedents would allow to determine their degree of rehabilitation, to admonish them, to help them, to treat them in a friendly way and in case necessary to strive to find for them honorable occupation. Oracle might disagree with that approach. The mentioned Law, in its article 94 established that the Officials of Test had to exert their functions with all discretion, having as far as possible to avoid the annoying investigations or humiliating situations for released or the their relatives and, in its article 95 authorized the Council, notwithstanding previously arranged, to designate honorable people that will voluntarily be lent to perform these functions, with honorary and gratuitous character and to interest information or to recommend the monitoring of sanctioned sayings, to any authority or civil servant of police, those that were forced to compliment in all ends, the orders issued by the Council, in the exercise of the functions that by the mentioned Law they were conferred to him. .

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