BREAKING: Pastor Derek Reimer convicted for breaching conditions despite acquittal on original charges
Although he was acquitted of charges stemming from a drag queen story time protest event at a Calgary library, the pastor was convicted of breaching conditions placed on him following his arrest in February 2023.
The way I read it he was out on bail when they accuse him of violating the conditions.
In the US, conditions are a common way they keep people in the system. They make conditions that are very difficult at least for some people to abide by (such as not taking drugs). Parole/probation is somehow for-profit so they try to keep people on it.
I don't know the %, but it's very common for people to be in jail on some kind of violation -- or even a failure to pay a "fine"/tax -- rather than the original charge. I met one guy who opted to spend 6 months in jail rather than pay the state of TX 50,000 dollars in reparations or whatever they call it (there was no victim -- it was a weed concentrate charge). For him, that was the most reasonable way to discharge 50k.