Article 46 Any criminal who is sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or life imprisonment shall serve his sentence in prison or another place for the execution. Anyone who is able to work shall do so to accept education and reform through labor. 第四十六条被判处有期徒刑、无期徒刑的犯罪分子,在监狱或者其他执行场所执行;凡有劳动能力的,都应当参加劳动,接受教育和改造。
For those sentenced to control, criminal detention, or fixed-term imprisonment, the term of the punishment actually to be executed may not, after reductions of sentence, be less than half of the term originally decided. 减刑以后实际执行的刑期,判处管制、拘役、有期徒刑的,不能少于原判刑期的二分之一。
The medical parole system indicates that, the criminal who was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or criminal detention serves his sentence outside the jail after legal procedure, because of serious disease which leads to no fit for serving his sentence in jail. 保外就医制度是指被判处有期徒刑或者拘役的罪犯由于身体患有严重疾病,不适宜在监管场所内服刑,经过取保手续而依法将其放在监外执行刑罚的制度。