Thank you for the question.
A conditional sentence has a very practical effect in the sense that, if you have an offender who is being sentenced, the conditional sentence has the ability to combine more rehabilitative components that enable a person, once they have finished their sentence, to actually not go back to a criminal lifestyle.
I mean, drug trafficking is an obvious one. Drug trafficking, when it's not motivated by addiction, is motivated by a desire for profit. When a person comes out of jail without any prospects for employment, it's a lot easier to fall back into that lifestyle, whereas a conditional sentence would allow a person to remain employed. It would allow a person to access better health care and better mental health counselling or other forms of counselling or other forms of rehabilitative programming that just wouldn't be available to them while they were incarcerated.
In that sense, a conditional sentence is infinitely better in terms of reintegrating someone into society and providing that they rehabilitate properly.