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DCHP-2 (Jul 2016)
Non-Canadianism
This is a word that our editors have determined is not a Canadianism.
n. — Administration, Law
the release of a prisoner during the day to, e.g. to work or attend school.
COD-2 marks day release "Cdn". The term, however, is no Canadianism, as shown in Chart 1. The common Canadian term is day parole, which can be claimed as a Canadianism on the grounds of frequency.
Quotations
1981
Before these new programs started, the opportunity to earn money while serving a sentence was limited to low-risk inmates employed outside the prison on day release.
1988
"We believe organized crime figures like Tony Musitano should serve their full time, right up to the mandatory (two-thirds of their sentence)."
Convicts are eligible for day release after serving one-sixth of their sentences and for full parole after serving one-third. Providing they have exhibited relatively good behavior in prison, they must be released after serving two-thirds of their sentences on a form of parole that is called mandatory supervision.
1994
After being transferred to Joyceville penitentiary, Reid again escaped custody while on day release. Later, when Mitchell feigned a medical emergency, Reid and Lionel Wright helped him escape by holding up the ambulance transporting him from prison to hospital.
1996
He reports, for instance, that guards were not allowed to search visitors. Nor were they allowed to conduct "effective" searches of the prisoners who had returned from day release.
2002
Moyes and Therrien were charged last week with first-degree murder of five people at a farm in Abbotsford, B.C., in September 1996, while both were on day-release programs.
References
- COD-2
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