The parliamentary budget officer is estimating that changing the rules for conditional sentences could cost taxpayers an extra $145 million because of increased parole reviews and prosecutions ...

A majority of the Supreme Court of Canada has found that Criminal Code provisions prohibiting conditional sentences for certain offences did not infringe an Indigenous woman’s equality rights, because ...

OTTAWA—Equating time served in the community with time spent in jail opens up the door to absurd possibilities within immigration law, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday. In a unanimous ...

In an aggravated assault case, the British Columbia Court of Appeal replaced the custodial sentence with a conditional sentence upon ruling the Gladue principles required it to sentence the Indigenous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Tuesday Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were each given conditional sentences of 18 months. They were found guilty for mischief in ...

Stephen Harper does not like conditional sentencing. "Unlike the Opposition parties," the prime minister declared at a 2008 election rally in Saskatoon, "we don't believe house arrest is a suitable ...

James Morton, a once successful lawyer, professor, author and mentor, received a six-month conditional sentence Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to bigamy and fraud. The judge cited Morton’s ...

A suspended Surrey RCMP officer accused of using his position of authority to engage in intimate relationships with young women — both on and off-duty — will not spend any time behind bars. Cpl. Peter ...