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If you have been convicted of more than one offence that results in a sentence to be served in custody, the court may order you to serve your sentences concurrently or consecutively.
A concurrent sentence means that you will be held in a correctional centre for the length of your longest sentence. In other words, you will serve your two sentences at the same time. For example:
A consecutive sentence means that you will be held in a correctional centre for a total of all the sentence periods. In other words, you will serve one sentence at a time and one right after another. For example:
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Check our alphabetical list of criminal justice terms along with their definitions.