Serving Your Sentence
If you are an adult convicted of committing a crime in B.C., you may be required to serve your sentence in the community, in custody or a combination of both.
Community Sentence
If you are required to serve all or part of your sentence in the community, you may be supervised by a probation officer and required to obey certain conditions set by the judge.
To learn more, please visit: Serving a Community Sentence.
Custody Sentence
If you are required to serve your sentence in custody, you will serve it in a provincial correctional centre or a federal correctional centre. Where you serve your sentence will depend on the length of time the judge has ordered you spend in custody. If your sentence is:
- less than two years, you will serve it in a provincial correctional centre. If ordered by the court, your sentence may be followed by a period of probation, supervised by a probation officer; or
- two years or more, you will serve your sentence in a federal correctional centre. You will be eligible for statutory release after completing two-thirds of your sentence.
You may also be eligible for parole.
To learn more, please visit: Serving a Custody Sentence.
More Information
For information about serving a youth sentence, please visit: Serving a Youth Sentence - Youth Justice.
