Discuss this fully with your lawyer before you leave the courthouse so that you do understand your sentence.
If you’re sentenced to a prison term of two years or less, you’ll only have to serve half of that sentence and then you’ll be released. If your sentence is longer than two years, you’ll have to go to the Parole Board to be released. You qualify for parole after a third of your sentence (unless the judge gave you a minimum no-parole period of longer than one third of your full sentence). You’ll need to convince the Parole Board that you’re not a risk to the community and that you should be released on parole. You must also have completed any rehabilitation courses you’ve been ordered to go to.