‘Little practical progress has been made on the TRC’s calls to action’ says Correctional Investigator
Canada has made little progress implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 10 calls to action…
Correctional Service of Canada
Indigenous offenders keep serving longer prison sentences, less likely to get parole: Auditor general
During 2015-2016 fiscal year 740 of 1,066 Indigenous offenders served until statutory release.
Federal prison corporation’s selling of moccasins, drums for revenue ‘exploitative,’ says Cree-Metis artist
Should federal prisons be selling mocassins and drums made by inmates?
Top think tank VP facing probe over ‘racially prejudiced’ remarks about Indigenous peoples, Asians
The Conference Board of Canada, one of country’s most prominent think tanks, has launched an internal investigation
Cree woman serving a death sentence unless Trudeau government steps in
Marlene Carter will either be released or die in custody.
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.