Who gets a conditional sentence?
In all likelihood, Harper chose Saskatchewan as the location for his 2008 attack on conditional sentences because that province has one of the highest crime rates in the country. “Too many criminals on house arrest should never have been there in the first place,” he proclaimed. He went on to note that in Saskatchewan, 39 per cent of criminals on conditional sentences were sent back to jail for breaching their conditions. But who are these people, what were their crimes, and what did they do to wind up back in jail?
