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in respect of matters related to the calculation of the term of sentence referred to
in section 28 of the Probationary Liberty Under Supervision Act, and in Chapter
3, section 7 of the Imprisonment Act.
(4) The Act on the Procedure for Release of Long-Term Prisoners applies to consideration of the matter in the Helsinki Court of Appeals. (781/2005)
Section 10(a) – Calculation of the prison time of a person sentenced to life
imprisonment (1099/2010)
(1) The prison time of a person sentenced to life imprisonment is the sentence
and the time that the prisoner has been under arrest, in remand or otherwise deprived of his or her liberty as a result of the offence, before beginning to serve the
sentence.
(2) The period of loss of liberty referred to above in subsection 1 shall be deemed
prison time even if the prisoner is at the same time serving a fixed-term sentence,
imprisonment for unpaid fines, or military confinement.
(3) If a sentence of life imprisonment includes other sentences of imprisonment,
the calculation of the prison time shall not include any deductions made from
these sentences on the basis of Chapter 6, section 13 which apply to the period
before the beginning of the period of loss of liberty referred to in subsection 1.
Section 11 – Service of the entire sentence in prison (780/2005)
(1) In imposing a sentence the court may on the request of the prosecutor order
that the convicted person shall not be released until he or she has served the entire sentence if:
(1) the offender is sentenced to a fixed-term sentence of imprisonment for at
least three years for murder, homicide, killing, aggravated assault, aggravated rape, aggravated sexual abuse of a child, aggravated robbery,
aggravated criminal mischief, genocide, crime against humanity, aggravated crime against humanity, war crime, aggravated war crime, torture,
aggravated trafficking in persons, taking of a hostage, aggravated endangerment of health, nuclear device offence, hijacking, an offence
committed with terrorist intent or an attempt of or complicity in such offence, (990/2009)
(2) during the ten years preceding the offence the offender had been guilty
of an offence mentioned in subsection 1 or an offence mentioned in subsection 1 had been committed within three years of his or her release after having served the full sentence in prison or after having served life
imprisonment or after he or she had been conditionally released in the
manner referred to in section 12, subsection 1, and
(3) on the basis of the factors apparent in the offences and the investigation
referred to in Chapter 17, section 37, subsection 3 of the Code of Judi-