‘Disturbing and entrenched imbalances’: Indigenous people make up 30 per cent of prison population
Canada’s Correctional Investigator says Indigenous people now represent 30 per cent of those locked up…
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Grassy Narrows reminds Canada of unkept promises as AFN sets its priority agenda
Lindsay Richardson and Jamie Pashagumskum APTN News Ojibwe Elder Bill Fobister has mercury poisoning, his children…
Liberals to re-open Kingston prison farms that critics say will exploit inmate labour
Todd LamirandeAPTN NewsTwo of six prison farms shuttered by the Harper government were officially reopened…
‘It’s disappointing’: Corrections maintains status quo as number of Indigenous women tops 40% of prison population
Despite calls from a number of federal agencies and committees, the Correctional Service of Canada…
Read the national MMIWG inquiry’s Calls for Justice here
APTN News The following are the Calls for Justice issued by the National Inquiry into…
‘Yes, it’s torture’: Federal inmate on segregation and life on the inside
Timothy Nome has spent the last 60 days in a segregation cell at the Stony…
First Nations woman says Corrections Canada uses honour system when hiring Indigenous employees
Lindsay Richardson APTN National News A First Nation former employee of Corrections Canada is speaking…
Advocates say Corrections Canada needs to make bold moves to help Indigenous prisoners but is it ready?
The Senate’s Human Rights Committee is set to release a report soon on Canada’s prisons…
‘It’s a right’: Spiritual services in provincial jails far from standard across the country
A Mi’kmaw man was denied access to Indigenous spiritual services in a New Brunswick jail…