Auditor General takes aim at access to health care for remote First Nations
The Canadian Press OTTAWA _ Canada’s auditor general is taking issue with the quality of…
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Nunavut’s jails extremely unsafe for inmates and staff: Auditor General
Nunavut’s prisons are unsafe, lack maximum security facilities and completely lack rehabilitation programs that would help inmates return to society, according to a report from the Auditor General of Canada released Tuesday.
Aboriginal man uses experience behind bars to help offenders tell their ‘Gladue’ story
Dan Parlow has lived more days locked up than as a free man.
Ottawa shrugs off alarming report on First Nation, Inuit, Metis inmates
The federal government won’t be making any changes as a result of the hard-hitting report from Canada’s correctional investigator released Thursday which again sounded the alarm over a growing crisis involving rising rates of First Nation, Inuit and Metis people behind bars.
Report on Aboriginal peoples over-populating prisons a wake-up call: Critics
APTN National News Reaction to the long-awaited report on the representation of Aboriginal peoples in…
Special report outlines problems for Aboriginal peoples in Canada's prisons
APTN National News In the last five years there’s been a 43 per cent increase…
CSIS met with jailed Ottawa firebomber before parole denied
The man who firebombed an Ottawa bank in 2010 in the name of First Nations rights was denied parole a few months after CSIS met with him prison, APTN National News has learned.
Ottawa failing on prison farm replacement
Ottawa promised to replace shut down prison farms with programs to better help inmates gain job skills. According to the man in charge of overseeing prisons, nothing has been done since the cattle were auctioned off.