Time spent in residential rehabilitation facilities in conditions amounting to quasi-custody should be credited at approximately 50% when backdating sentences. Credit is not forfeited merely because the offender committed further offences during the program, provided the program was willing to have the offender return and the offences were not of a very extreme nature. The issue must be raised before the sentencing judge, but failure to do so does not preclude correction on appeal.
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