Life imprisonment is legal in Belgium, and is the most severe punishment available under Belgian law since the abolition of the death penalty.
[1] If the parole court rejects the parole request, the inmate may thereafter reapply every year until they are released or die.
The most severe punishment available to a juvenile tribunal for a defendant aged 12-15 is 14 years of fixed-term imprisonment.
[failed verification] When the accused is 16 or 17 and suspected of severe offenses, a juvenile court may transfer the case to the correctional tribunal (or, in the most serious of cases, to the court of assizes).
The most severe punishment that a court of assizes may pass against a defendant aged 16 or 17 is 30 years' imprisonment (with eligibility to apply for parole after 15 years).