How does weekends in jail work

In another Ontario case, a man with a previous conviction for attempted murder received an intermittent sentence for theft and assaulting his mother — the judge's reasoning was that the attacker needed to complete his adult education program. But in some parts of the country, there have been recurring issues with finding space for people to serve those intermittent sentences.

A few years back, a jail in Windsor, Ontario, was forced to send some offenders nearly kilometres away to a London detention centre to spend their weekends. And in New Brunswick, intermittent inmates were spending their weekends double-bunked in tiny cells designed for solitary confinement, a situation that a union representative for correctional officer called "inhumane and dangerous.

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Comments on this story are moderated according to our Submission Guidelines. Failure to pay weekend fees, reporting to serve your sentence under the influence of Drugs or Alcohol, and non-compliance with court ordered reporting times will be reported to the sentencing judge and may result in a sentence modification. All medications must be surrendered to Security Staff upon entering the Center.

Upon approval Medical Staff will administer medication at designated times or as needed. All Weekend Inmates will be issued an Inmate Manual, and shall complete orientation of program rules. Please enable JavaScript in your browser for a better user experience. For example, if an offender gets an intermittent sentence, they may go jail on the weekends, i. This continues until the sentence is finished. For example, a judge may let an offender serve an intermittent sentence by being in jail from Monday until Friday and being out of jail on weekends.

An intermittent sentence can only happen if the judge imposes a sentence of 90 days or less.