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Articles 24-29 from the "General Part" of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (1934)
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24. Social defense measures of a medical nature are:
b) placement in an institution in combination with quarantine.
b) placement in special medical educational institutions [20 December 1927 - (SU 1928 No.4, Art. 38.)]
27. Declaration as an enemy of the toiling masses and expulsion from the limits of the USSR, with deprivation of Union Republic citizenship, and thus of citizenship of the USSR, may be extended without limit. [6 June 1927 (SU 49, Art. 330]
*28. Deprivation of freedom is fixed for a term of one to ten years.
Deprivation of freedom for a term up to three years is served in public prisons. Deprivation of freedom for a term of three and more years is served in corrective-labor camps.
In exceptional cases, recognizing that the one condemned to to deprivation of liberty for a term of three years or more plainly is not fit for physical labor or that the degree of [the accused's] social dangerousness does not require placement in a corrective-labor camp, the court has the right to commute the camp to a general place of confinement by special decree in the sentence. [20 May 1930 (SU No. 26, art. 344)] 1
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Footnote 2) A sentence of imprisonment without loss of rights against a soldier in time of war, may, by ruling of the court, be postponed in fulfillment to the end of [military] operations, so that the condemned may be sent to the front-line army.
With respect to any soldiers mentioned in the first part of the present footnote,
proving themselves in the ranks of the front-line army to be stout defenders of the USSR,
on intercession of the appropriate army command, dismissal of the earlier-prescribed measures for social defense, or their commutation to milder measures for social defense, is permitted upon determination of the court that pronounced the [original] sentence. [(1 October 1929, SU No. 127, Article 816). 30 November 1930 (SU No. 61, Article 749). 10 July 1934 (SU No. 30, Article 174)].
On determination by a court of other measures of social defense of a judicial-corrective nature, apart from deprivation of liberty, the court has the right, taking into consideration imprisonment before trial, correspondingly to mitigate a measure of social defense chosen by it or to decide on the complete non-use against the condemned of the measure of social defense indicated by the sentence.
With respect to those sentenced to corrective-labor work, three days of corrective-labor work are reckoned as one day of deprivation of liberty.
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a) compulsory treatment;
25. Social defense measures of a medical-educational nature are:
a) return of minors to the care of parents, adoptive parents, guardians, trustees, or relatives, if these have the ability to maintain them; or to the care of other persons and establishments
26. Medical and medical-educational social defense measures can be taken by a court of law, if it rules that judicial/correctional social defense measures are not appropriate to the case, and in the same way and in addition to the latter, if medico-educational and medical social defense measures were not applied by the appropriate organs prior to the judicial proceeding.
Footnote 1. Revoked. [10 July 1934 - SU No. 30, Article 174].
*29. Both the time spent in preliminary detention, as well as the time spent in confinement from the moment of sentencing up to the entry in legalforce of the verdict, must be counted in the period of deprivation of liberty, as determined by the court.
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