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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
It is neither in their mandate nor in the power of Consulates to intervene. It's up to the Canadian citizen's own lawyer to advocate for serving their sentence in a Canadian jail, and it's entirely the sentencing government's choice if they want to allow it or not. Consular services will help with a list of recommended lawyers if requested and may provide advocacy in circumstances where someone's human rights are being violated, even though they don't have a legal obligation to do so either. Unless it's a special case, Canadians should expect that if they break the law overseas they have to deal with the consequences of the legal system in the host country.
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I've dealt with a couple of federal (its pretty much always federal) inmates doing their offshore time in BC, they all seemed to have some consular help to allow it, they were from European countries though none from the states