I don't see that as the logic they would necessarily use. The logic they use would be more along the lines that it's going to take a year to go to trial, and regrettably, it often does take that long. What they're going to say is, well, if I plead guilty after serving three or four months, I get that knocked off the sentence; then I'm going to go either to the penitentiary, depending on the sentence, or the upper reformatory. I want to get out of the Don—you want to get out of whichever jail you're in—because there's nothing there for me.
There are a number of benefits to being moved into either federal or provincial institutions, not the least of which is family contact.