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The new punishment of “house arrest with electronic monitoring” was touted as a major innovation of law no. 2019-222 on programming for 2018–2022 and justice reform, dated March 23, 2019. The idea was that it would tackle the issue of short custodial sentences by providing a credible alternative to incarceration, as well as making sentencing easier to understand. Yet, the analysis of statutes and regulations on the topic highlights certain defects and raises concerns about probable unreached targets.