Furthermore, in view of the prison population growing, yearly maintenance costs as well as the, foreign state's practice, house arrest institute should be reformed and consolidate in Criminal Procedure Code as a separate type of punishment. This would enable a significant savings given to convicts, arrest or imprisonment for less serious offenses, to maintain, which could be used for the introduction of electronic house arrest monitoring forms. In practice, the house arrest is applied to the suspect so as well as the accused, but the Lithuanian Criminal Procedure Code that regulates house arrest, refers only to the suspect. This legal vacuum should be adjusted, the legislator clearly stating that the house arrest can be used in both the sus...