Conditional Release and Performance - Post-Warrant Expiry Readmission

Official Title: Performance Monitoring Report 2019-2020 Conditional Release and Performance - Post-Warrant Expiry Readmission
From: Parole Board of Canada

Post-Warrant Expiry Readmission

Tables 155-158

The post-warrant expiry readmission analysis provides an important insight into the offender’s ability in the long term to live a crime-free life in the community after completion of his or her sentence. This information is useful for strategic planning and assessment of the effectiveness of the law, policy and operations.

Figure 35. Post-Warrant Expiry Readmission Rates

• Ten to fifteen years after sentence completion (for sentences completed between 2005-06 and 2009-10), 26% of federal offenders had returned on a federal sentence as of March 31, 2020.
• Over the long-term (for sentences completed between 2005-06 and 2009-10), offenders released at warrant expiry were four times more likely to be readmitted on a new federal sentence than offenders who completed their sentences on full parole. Offenders released on statutory release were only slightly less likely to be readmitted on a federal sentence after their sentence completion than offenders released at warrant expiry.
• When looking at the readmission rate for a violent offence (for sentences completed between 2005-06 and 2009-10), offenders released at warrant expiry were 13 times more likely to return to a federal institution because of a new violent offence than offenders who completed their sentences on full parole, and one and a half times more likely than offenders who completed their sentences on statutory release.