When sentencing an offender upon termination of a Drug Court program, the court must not treat the success or failure of rehabilitation as the sole determinant of whether credit is given for time spent in a residential rehabilitation centre. Credit for quasi custody should usually be given where the offender spent six months or more in a centre and applied themselves to the program, even if rehabilitation was ultimately unsuccessful. However, the amount of credit depends on all the circumstances, including the length of time in the centre, the offender's application to the program, the outcome of treatment, the leniency or severity of the sentence, and any further offending during the program. Where sentences are already at the bottom of the permissible range, it may be wrong to give any credit.
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