Convicted gangster Jarrod Bacon expressed concerns earlier this year that being placed in a halfway house could put his life at risk.
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Bacon, 33, left a Quebec prison last month on statutory release after being on a charge of conspiracy to traffic cocaine.
By law, most offenders (except those serving a life or indeterminate sentence) must be released from prison after serving two-thirds of their sentence, if parole has not already been granted.
The parole board determined that Bacon should be placed in a halfway house - the documents don乌鸦传媒檛 indicate where 乌鸦传媒� for the remainder of his sentence, rather than be monitored only by electronic surveillance, as he had requested.
Bacon said living in a halfway house would make it easy for former opponents to find and kill him.
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He participated in French courses, completed first aid training, and plans to take vocational training and search for work in the coming months.
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Bacon was originally , but that was increased to by the Crown.
His statutory release date came up so soon due to his receiving double credit for time already served prior to sentencing.
At the time of his 2009 arrest, he was living in Abbotsford and was part of the notorious Bacon brothers, who were running the Red Scorpions gang.
Jonathan Bacon was in Kelowna in August 2011, and brother Jamie is currently in prison in the Surrey Six murders.
