How soon could Omar Khadr get parole in Canada?
In Canada an offender is usually eligible to apply for parole after serving one-third of a sentence. A prisoner can apply for day parole six months before full parole. Unlike the U.S. military commissions, under Canada’s International Transfer of Offenders Act any time spent in custody between arrest and sentencing counts as time served. Because the act also says that an offender is eligible to apply for parole after “five years, if they were 14 or 15 years old at the time the offence was committed,” Khadr may be applying for parole his first day back in Canada. (Even if Khadr were eligible before his transfer, it would not matter. Under those circumstances, the act stipulates that “the day of their transfer is deemed to be their day of eligibility.”) Ottawa lawyer Paul Champ, who has handled a number of prisoner transfers, argues it would not matter in determining Khadr’s equivalent Canadian sentence whether he is considered a child or an adult.
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