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 ...

OTTAWA – The number of offenders who were permitted to serve their time at home rather than in prisons and jails climbed five per cent last year, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday. The increase in ...

Alberta is moving ahead with plans to monitor people serving conditional sentences with electronic ankle bracelets, says a spokesman for the Solicitor General's Department. The program is expected to ...

The federal government doesn’t have to try to reduce the disproportionate incarceration rates of Indigenous peoples when it passes crime laws, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. The court split ...

The Ontario Court of Appeal is seen in Toronto on April 8, 2019. A law that bars a judge from imposing a conditional sentence for certain offences was struck down as unconstitutional on Friday in a ...

A 65-year-old businessman with health issues and no prior criminal record has been sentenced to 21 months in jail for the illegal possession of a loaded handgun, stored in a dresser in the bedroom of ...

A 19-year-old Melfort, Sask. man has been sentenced after he bludgeoned a dog with a hammer in December. Calyb Hoffman was handed a conditional sentence of six months to be served in the community on ...

B.C.'s highest court has overturned a sentencing decision that allowed a caregiver to avoid jail time for her role in the death of a developmentally disabled woman. On Tuesday, the B.C. Court of ...

Matthew Rushin pleaded guilty to his involvement in two car crashes. Matthew Rushin will soon be a free man thanks to a conditional pardon granted to him by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam last week. The ...

Sexually assaulting five young girls drawn to his convenience store by access to adult goods like vaping products has landed a Calgary man house arrest for two years. Gurpartap Singh Walia was also ...