A serial rapist Halifax police warned the public about in December 2022 is getting out of prison on statutory release, but the Parole Board of Canada insists he must stay at a halfway house or psychiatric facility.

Samuel Clements Green is serving more than nine and a half years for committing five separate sexual assaults targeting women as they walked alone at night in an Indigenous community between August and December of 2014, as well as a string of break and enters. The 29-year-old is getting out of prison under the law that requires federal offenders who have served two-thirds of a fixed-length sentence be released to serve the remainder of their sentence in the community, under supervision.