Morocco Considers License Suspension, Passport Revocation as Alternatives to Prison Sentences

This proposal aims to reduce recidivism and the number of inmates in prisons. In general, the draft penal code provides for alternative sentences to solve the thorny problem of prison overcrowding, some of which no longer have the capacity to accommodate, according to Al Massae. Among the alternative sentences, there are also the restriction of certain rights and the implementation of preventive measures, daily fines or the performance of certain public service work.

These alternative measures concern offenses whose custodial sentence does not exceed two years of criminal imprisonment. In addition to the expansion of the scope of alternative sentences to detention by the withdrawal of the driver’s license and the passport for a determined period, the parliamentary groups have proposed training, citizenship awareness and fixed or mobile electronic monitoring.