Survey after survey shows that what Canadians and all other people want from the justice system is to be safe. They want the person not to reoffend. After prison systems have been failing for years, you're removing the mechanism that academics have suggested is making some headway, without even knowing if it's been successful in the eight cases.
In those eight sentences, what were some of the conditions that would help the person? What would a person have received in those particular eight hand-picked cases? What was in their conditional sentences, other than being at home in their houses?