A non-custodial sentence requiring offenders to do supervised community work for a certain number of hours per week.
they received the usual correctional sanctions, either imprisonment or periodic detention
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For jobs of this type they get some assistance from workers on Periodic Detention.
The completion rates, to date, show that the figures are just as good as those under the old periodic detention system.
The compliance rate with periodic detention was 75 to 80 percent.
The two are serving nine months of periodic detention for painting the words "No war" on the sails of the Sydney Opera House.
He was serving the first weekend of a nine-month periodic detention sentence.
This is no different from the punishment system under the previous Government where offenders who breached periodic detention were often sentenced to more periodic detention.
He had also committed a similar offence and was serving periodic detention.
Probation Service is also lending a hand, with work parties on periodic detention involved in clearing the site.
It may work if the offenders were in small groups and sufficiently supervised like in periodic detention but still a huge opportunity for vulnerable residents to be taken advantage of.
We now have 6,000 people in corrections institutions and about another 20,000 people on probation, in periodic detention, etc.