Certainly, that was the finding of “Creating Choices” in 1990, when they decided to close the Kingston penitentiary for women. They wanted to set up penitentiaries across the country so that they could have some more regionalization and women could be closer to their home communities and their family support systems.
Section 84 is a form of parole, so it would be the granting of the parole and some of the supervision of the parole within a community. You can't go out on a section 84 release plan until you are released on parole.