University students get house arrest for fatal cabbie accident

[Taualumna]

Being stuck at home with your television, Internet access, Xbox and a fully stocked refrigerator doesn't sound like such a terrible fate.

That's the punishment awaiting Alexander Ryazanov and Wang-Piao Dumani Ross, both 20, who were sentenced this week to a year of house arrest for a high-speed car crash that killed taxi driver Tahir Khan last year

Globe and Mail article

[AlexMack]

Interesting article, I didn't know they're stepping up house arrests. It makes sense but in another way I can see why it's considered soft. Prisoners don't have the luxuries of home, period. On house arrest, you do (unless you're the woman who stabbed her lover to death and was barred from the internet).