6.6 Alternative to Prison

6.6.1 Fine and Restitution The money and repair penalties: fines as the minor offence's default (imprisonment's costly substitute); restitution and compensation to victims (the offender paying the harmed — the Criminal Code's compensation face and the Crime Victim Protection Act 2075's state fund) — punishment that repairs rather than merely deprives. 6.6.2 Probation and Parole Probation = the suspended sentence with supervised community living (conditions: reporting, conduct, treatment; revocation on breach) — the therapeutic approach's instrument. Parole = conditional release before sentence's end (the earned reintegration; supervision; recall on violation). Nepal's home: the Sentencing Act 2074's provisions for probation and parole (the release-on-guarantee traditions of the old practice codified and modernised — describe by effect, without section numbers); the infrastructure question (probation officers' service) is the implementation gap. 6.6.3 Community Service Court-ordered unpaid public work for minor offences — the visible, reparative, non-custodial tariff (the Sentencing Act 2074's community-service orders); its success depends on supervision and meaningful placements. 6.6.4 After Care Programme The release-side services: halfway homes, employment linkage, counselling, family reintegration, the identity-document and bank-account assistance — the bridge across the prison gate; Nepal's practice (NGO- and community-run; the guthi and cooperative models' potential) is thin — aftercare is the correctional chain's weakest link. 6.6.5 Other Alternatives as per Nepalese Penal Law Open/semi-open prisons (the trust graduations of the…