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  • 020557

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  • Published 2005.
  • 30 pages.

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Sentence Calculation: How Does It Work?

Publication year: 2005 | Cataloged on: Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: "[B]asic sentence calculation rules for offenders subject to penitentiary sentences" are explained (p. 3). This booklet covers: the difference between federal penitentiaries (and inmates) and provincial prisons (and prisoners); multiple sentences -- consecutive and concurrent; the different forms of conditional release and when federal offenders can apply for them; overview of eligibility dates; how parole eligibility is determined when an offender is subject to a single and then multiple sentences; what a conditional sentence is; what an intermittent sentence is; what the Sex Offender Information Registration Act does; and contacts for obtaining further information.
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