It is important to know, or remember, that a record suspension is only given after someone completes their sentence and does not reoffend.

When she arrived home her mother asked her where she had been, so Terri-Lynne McClintic told her she had been chased by police into London, she said. Terri-Lynne McClintic then took some OxyContin with her mom, court heard. It’s not the state’s business to be in the forgiveness business,” then Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews declared. Such statements illustrate the extent to which changes to the “pardon” system were politically driven.The Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge is located on the Nekaneet First Nation about 30 kilometres southeast from the closest city of Maple Creek, Sask. She died from at least four blows to the head from a hammer and 16 of her ribs were broken or fractured. Doesn't change life sentence

So it allowed them to grow and change, and surely it's what we want for all inmates. It's simply giving them another opportunity. A chance." The women are given the opportunity to learn basic literacy and work toward their high school diploma. Stephen Williams, as the author of two books on the Bernardo-Homolka murders, has researched the rare breed of couples who kill together. Williams makes no comparisons between the “awful, terrible tragedy” of Tori’s death and the “unholy crime spree extravaganza” upon which Bernardo and Homolka embarked. Rafferty told her, “you realize what that would consist of right?” and added, “I’ve always wanted conjugal visits.”It places them in a rare class of murderers with Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka: couples who kill. Little is known about Rafferty's early life, except that he told people he wasn't close to his brothers and he was sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the country -- near where Tori was killed -- for a time in middle school. Such statements fuel public misconceptions about healing lodges which are, to all intents and purposes, prisons. There are guards, strip searches and close surveillance. McClintic was never not in prison. She was transferred from one prison to another and then another. I woke up probably about 5:30 in the morning…that young boy was still curled up on the floor,” he remembers.