I certainly can't speak to the eventual impact of the bill, but what I can speak to is the data that you see in the final slide. These data for the four jurisdictions that are presented here do speak to re-involvement after a sentence has been served, but in doing the analysis, we were not able to take into account any prior conviction history. What you do see is that the proportion who returned to the correctional system within that 12-month period was lower among those with conditional sentences and those with probation than it was among those who had a custody sentence. What we cannot say from the data is what the underlying factors causing this are. We are not able to speak to that.
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