‘We’re doing something really wrong:’ Advocates react to rising rates of Indigenous people in Canada’s prisons
Jamie Pashagumskum APTN News Indigenous women’s organizations are calling the results of a recent report…
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Yukon vows to improve life for inmates at Whitehorse jail, following report
Luke SmithAPTN NewsThe Yukon government is vowing to improve life for inmates at the Whitehorse…
Yukon government vows to improve jail conditions for inmates struggling with mental health issues
Almost four years after a group of inmates launched human rights complaints against a…
Indigenous inmates and their treatment within Corrections Canada – InFocus
Personal experience backs up facts that Indigenous inmates fair worse in Canada’s jails
Update from Regina jail: Inmates refusing to eat privatized food until demands met
Kenneth Jackson APTN National News Just like they said they would a group of inmates…
Aboriginal inmates in Regina to go on hunger strike over ‘gross’ jail food
Kenneth Jackson APTN National News After being hit with a hunger strike before Christmas the…
Yukon study aims to identify inmates with FASD
APTN National News There are no hard numbers to determine how many inmates in Canada’s…
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.
TRC gathers residential school memories from inmates
Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is gathering statements from prisoners in Canada’s jails.