‘Child welfare to prison pipeline’ feeding rising Indigenous incarceration rates
Renu Mandhane has visited Ontario’s provincial jails in northern Ontario where inmates largely identity as…
Incarceration rates
Justice system an ‘industry’ profiting off Indigenous offenders and victims
InFocus Less than five per cent of the population in Canada is Indigenous, yet Indigenous…
Senate committee studying prisons makes Edmonton stop
The Senate Committee on Human Rights is in Edmonton this week studying the treatment…
Work still needed years after landmark ruling on Indigenous sentencing: lawyers
Nearly two decades after the landmark court decision on Gladue sentencing and Indigenous offenders, lawyers say there are no national standards for implementing the ruling and too many Indigenous people are behind bars.
Additional oversight needed for Indigenous corrections, says watchdog
The Canadian Press OTTAWA — The country’s prison watchdog wants the new Liberal government to…