Explore: Preventive Detention

Preventive detention is an imprisonment that is putatively justified for non-punitive purposes, most often to prevent further criminal acts. Preventive

The Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 (PSA) is a preventive detention law under which a person is taken into custody to prevent them from acting

directly security-related are relaxed for those in preventive detention. The preventive detention may be continued every two years until it is found the

imprisonment. The first Norwegian prisoner ever sentenced to the 21 years' preventive detention (Norwegian: 21 års forvaring) was Viggo Kristiansen, who was convicted

Pre-trial detention, also known as jail, preventive detention, provisional detention, or remand, is the process of detaining a person until their trial

administrative detention often is based upon contentions that the suspect is likely to pose a threat in the future. It is meant to be preventive in nature

Singapore is a statute that grants the executive power to enforce preventive detention, prevent subversion, suppress organized violence against persons

beginning of the trial, received a life sentence to be followed by preventive detention. The public prosecutor accused the suspect of being motivated by

promulgated on 23 September 1980 whose purpose is "to provide for preventive detention in certain cases and for matters connected therewith". The act extends

sentence of preventive detention, which can be given for sexual or violent crimes for which life imprisonment is not available (preventive detention can be