Criminal Offences: Youth Criminal Justice Act (2:III): Difference between revisions
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Criminal Offences: Youth Criminal Justice Act (2:III) (view source)
Revision as of 20:16, 5 August 2020
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=== 3. Reintegration Leave === | === 3. Reintegration Leave === | ||
The Provincial Director may, subject to any terms or conditions that | The Provincial Director may, subject to any terms or conditions that they consider desirable, authorize a young person committed to custody in a youth facility the opportunity to have leave from the facility. There are two categories of leave: | ||
*a. '''Reintegration Leave''': This leave is granted for medical, compassionate or humanitarian reasons or for the purpose of rehabilitating the young person or reintegrating the young person into the community. The maximum length of time is 30 days (s 91(1)(a)). | *a. '''Reintegration Leave''': This leave is granted for medical, compassionate or humanitarian reasons or for the purpose of rehabilitating the young person or reintegrating the young person into the community. The maximum length of time is 30 days (s 91(1)(a)). | ||
*b. '''Day release:''' This leave is to allow a youth to attend an educational facility, to attend work, to assist | *b. '''Day release:''' This leave is to allow a youth to attend an educational facility, to attend work, to assist their family, to participate in programming related to school and/or work or to attend an outpatient treatment program or other program that provides services to address the needs of the young person (s 91(1)(b)). | ||
Reintegration leaves are also available to a young person serving an adult sentence in a youth facility. | Reintegration leaves are also available to a young person serving an adult sentence in a youth facility. |