Community service orders are administered by a local community service co-ordinator or probation officer and often involve work in community centres for seniors or the environment. Open custody means removal from the home for a fixed term and placement in a group home setting. Although there may be no bars on the doors and windows of an open custody placement, rules and staff provide significant limits to one's freedom. Secure custody means jail for young persons with bars and electronic security. Young persons sentenced to open or secure custody do not receive the statutory or earned remission or parole that adults receive.
Young persons serve the real time to which they are sentenced.
In Ontario, there are no weekend or intermittent sentences for young persons. An adolescent who has served 6 months of his or her custody term may apply to the original sentencing judge to reduce the custodial portion of the original sentence. Temporary absences are sometimes available from the provincial director. 45 Contrary to public perception , Youth Court records are not destroyed at age 18. Evidence of prior findings of guilt under the Young Offenders Act are often used against adults in Court at bail hearings and sentencing.