(1) Preventive confinement shall mean confinement for from 5 (five) to 20 (twenty) years under a programme of work and social reformation, during which the offender shall, in default of a separate establishment, be confined separately from convicts serving a sentence of imprisonment.
(2) The internal working of the establishment, the programme for the inmates, the details of their work, and the manner of their reformation shall be prescribed by decree.
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