Under USSC sentencing guidelines, sentenced offenders in federal courts typically receive one of five sentences: a fine; a prison-only sentence; a prison sentence plus confinement conditions; a ...

Montreal Mob boss Raynald Desjardins has failed in his effort to prevent Correctional Service Canada from knowing all about his business as the sentence he received six years ago, for his leading role ...

Members of the Montana Supreme Court have removed a condition from a Helena woman's sentence that requires her to remain on birth control for as long as she is on state supervision. The action follows ...

Decision overturns an Ontario court ruling that found Criminal Code provisions violated Charter rights in case of Indigenous woman arguing to serve time in the community for drug trafficking Author of ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that sentencing an Indigenous person to a jail term instead of a conditional sentence does not violate the Constitution in cases of crimes involving maximum ...

A former Halifax cab driver has been given a four-month conditional sentence for sexually assaulting a female passenger in July 2016. Judge Michael Sherar convicted Saher Hamdan, 29, earlier this year ...

Telling him racists “are not victims,” a Calgary judge on Friday reluctantly agreed to hand a city man a conditional sentence to be served in the community. But Justice Sean Dunnigan told Emilio ...