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 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 ...

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 ...

A Saskatchewan judge drew accusations of racism Thursday when he said a 12-year-old aboriginal girl may have been a willing participant or even the aggressor in sexual activity with the 26-year-old ...

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 ...

CRANBROOK, B.C. — Two men convicted of polygamy in British Columbia will not be serving time in jail after a B.C. Supreme Court judge gave them conditional sentences on Tuesday. Winston Blackmore was ...

The 18-month conditional sentence proposed for a man who hid parts of a customized, stolen race car on his property appropriately reflects his level of involvement, a Queen’s Bench judge ruled Monday.

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 ...

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 ...

The former principal of a school for children with special needs has received a 21-month conditional sentence after pleading guilty to defrauding her employer. Linda LaRocque, 64, a former ...