This thread is loaded with ignorance.
Not saying stupid or dumb people, just ignorance. There is a difference. If you don’t know you don’t know.
People bashing the parole board? I am not praising them.
In Canada if you go to prison you are eligible for parole after serving 1/3 of your sentence. At that time yes the parole board will make a choice. They are not letting you go scot free. You probably live in a halfway house and are monitored daily. Monitored till the day you complete your sentence.
Those that don’t get parole at 1/3rd of their sentence stay in prison till 2/3rds of their sentence. This is called “statutory release”. No parole board involved. You are free to go but will be monitored. 9 year prison sentence means 6 years in prison tops. Yet monitored. Commit a crime in Canada and you will be out of prison no later than 2/3rds of the sentence. It is how it is.
A sentence of life in prison? There is life 10 15 20 25 etc. All that means is these people are not eligible for parole until they have served that sentence of 10 15 20 or 25 has passed. Eligible does not mean you get it. Then it is up to the parole board. They have to make a choice. You can be sentenced to life 10 and never get out of prison. PEople need to realize a life sentence can mean just that. Life in prison.
In this situation the parole board did not screw up. They had no choice but to release this guy. It is the law!
I am not saying we should not change some laws but the parole board did not screw up.
Horrible outcome for sure.
Yet it is how the laws are written in this country.
Thousands of people are released from prison daily. No one expects something like this. Even if they did, nothing they could do about it.
You cannot try a person for murder before they commit the crime.
This is not an argument. Just facts.
I am not an expert but pretty close.
I know the system well.
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