Electronic prisons are an alternative to traditional prisons Legislative problems and proposed solutions

Authors

Ekramy Basuony Abd Elhi Khattab

 

Abstract

Electronic prisons, as an alternative to traditional prisons, are a achieve a lot of benefits at the present time to the economic of state by reducing the costs of establishing traditional prisons and it has been a lot of advantages to the offenders who are committed low-risk crimes. Despite the extreme importance of this penalty, it faces many legislative problems, including those related to the stages prior to its imposition with criminal punitive texts, whether it is related to its legality, scope of application and legal nature, including what results in the practical application of it such as assaulting freedoms and personal rights, problems of financial financing and technical problems. and the monopoly of these technologies by foreign companies and their impact on national security. The pages of this research revolve around presenting and analyzing previous problems and proposing practical solutions to them, leading to determining the validity of their application from a realistic legal point of view within the Arab legal legislative framework. To achieve the objective of this research, the researcher divided it into two sections, one of them entitled “ Definition of electronic prison and its importance”, the other entitled “Legislative problems and their proposed solutions “, the third entitled “ The possibility of applying the penalty of electronic imprisonment in the Arab countries” At the end of the day the researcher concluded his research with the most important results; proposals, and then a list of the most important references.

DOI: 10.51958/AAUJBL2023V7I2P5