FACT SHEET

1. Murderers in Penitentiary (as of December 1995)

2,085 Murderers = 15% of penitentiary population

• 574 First Degree
  
• 1,511 Second Degree
  

2. Murderers eligible for s. 745 review (up to December 1995)

175 eligible (First and Second Degree)

• 74 have applied (42.3% of those eligible)
  
• first review was in 1987
  
• 63 reviews have been completed

3. Results of s.745 reviews (up to December 1995)

• 13 refused reduction in parole eligibility period (20.6%)
  
• 50 granted some reduction in parole eligibility period (79.4%)
  First Degree

• 40 received some reduction in parole eligibility date
  
• 18 allowed to apply for parole immediately (had served 15 or 16 years)
  
• 22 given some reduction from 25-year parole eligibility date

Second Degree

• 10 received some reduction in parole eligibility date

4.Current status of the 50 who received some reduction in Parole Eligibility Date

• 6 denied any form of parole
  
• 5 not yet reviewed for parole
  
• 3 not yet eligible for parole
  
• 17 on full parole
  
• 8 on day parole
  
• 6 on Unescorted Temporary Absence
  
• 1 dead
  
• 2 revoked for technical violation of parole conditions
  
• 1 unlawfully at large
  
• 1 re-offended (armed robbery)
  
  

(Source: Correctional Service of Canada; National Parole Board)