Belgium has a two-track policy towards prison release: a quasiautomatic administrative release system for those with a prison sentence of up to three years, and a discretionary system operated by multidisciplinary Sentence Implementation Courts for persons with a prison term of more than three years. This article describes, discusses and compares both release systems, with a particular focus on their rationales and consequences and provides updated figures on the use of the different forms of release in Belgium. The principle of relative autonomy will be described as an important legitimation strategy of conditional release. The article explains how the sentence implementation rationale of reintegration is put forward as an important aim of sentence implementation in the law and how it is pursued in practice. The consequences of the increasing use of the ‘gradual system’ of release on the detention trajectory of long-term prisoners will be illustrated.

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比利时发布政策、理由和做法

比利时对监狱释放采取双轨政策：针对三年以下有期徒刑者的准自动行政释放系统，以及由多学科量刑执行法院运作的针对三年以上有期徒刑者的自由裁量系统。本文描述、讨论和比较两种释放系统，特别关注其原理和后果，并提供有关比利时不同释放形式使用情况的最新数据。相对自治原则将被描述为有条件释放的重要合法化策略。文章解释了如何将重返社会的刑罚执行理据作为法律执行刑罚的重要目标提出，以及如何在实践中加以落实。