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Statistics Canada reports that conditional sentences still represent a small proportion of all sentences. A conditional sentence was imposed in 5% of all cases resulting in a conviction, and a small percentage of all sentences. Thus, in 2003-2004, of the 104,183 sentences of custody imposed across Canada, 13,267 or 12.7% were conditional sentences of imprisonment.(18) Of these, 4,215 conditional sentences were imposed for property offences while 3,619 were imposed for crimes against the person.
On an average day in 2004-2005, 152,600 adults were under the supervision of correctional services agencies in Canada, down 1% from the previous year.(19) Four out of five of these adults, about 120,500, were being supervised in the community. Of these, the vast majority (82%) were on probation, 12% were on conditional sentences, and 6% were on parole or statutory release. The remaining one in five adults, about 32,100, were in a federal penitentiary or in a provincial or territorial jail. Statistics Canada states that the implementation of the conditional sentence in 1996 provided the courts with a community-based alternative to imprisonment, and has had a direct impact on the decline in the number of sentenced prison admissions.(20) http://dsp-psd.communication.gc.ca/Collection-R/Statcan/85-002-XIE/0100485-002-XIE.pdf
The imposition of conditional sentences will not only result in a decline in the rate of incarceration, it should also represent a significant monetary saving; the average annual inmate cost for persons in provincial/territorial custody (including remand and other temporary detention) in 2002-2003 was $51,454, while the average annual cost of supervising an offender in the community (including conditional sentences, probation, bail supervision, fine option, and conditional release) was $1,792.(21)
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