Article 84 Federal Criminal Code

Preparatory liberty shall be granted to the convicted person, following the report referred to in the Code of Criminal Procedure, who has complied with three fifths of his conviction, if it involves intentional offenses, or one half of the same in case of negligent offenses, provided that he complies with the following requirements:

I.- That he has observed good conduct during the execution of his judgment;

II.- That from the examination of his personality it is presumed that he is socially readapted and in conditions of not offending again, and

III.- That he has repaired or undertakes to repair the damage caused, subjecting himself to the form, measures and terms that are set for him for said purpose, if he cannot cover it immediately.

Once the previous requirements are fulfilled, the competent authority shall have a period of no more than 30 business days to grant the preparatory liberty or, as applicable, inform the interested party of the result of his application, said preparatory liberty shall be subject to the following conditions:

a).- To reside or, as applicable, not to reside in a determined place, and to inform the authority of the changes of his domicile. The designation of the place of residence shall be made reconciling the circumstance that the prisoner may provide himself with work in the place that is set, with the fact that his permanence in it is not an obstacle for his amendment;

b).- To perform within the period that the resolution determines, a lawful trade, art, industry or profession, if he does not have his own means of subsistence;

c).- To abstain from the abuse of intoxicating beverages and from the use of narcotics: psychotropic substances or substances that produce similar effects, except by medical prescription;

d).- To submit to the measures of orientation and supervision that are dictated to him and to the vigilance of some honest and settled person, who undertakes to inform on his conduct, presenting him whenever required for that purpose.