Canada: seen in the press / 2022

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Detention conditions

17/11/2022
Canada’s prison system continues to punish Black and Indigenous people
A recent report from the Office of Correctional Investigator outlines how the same systemic barriers identified nearly a decade ago, including discrimination and racial bias, remain as pervasive and persistent as ever. The treatment of Black and Aboriginal people in Canadian federal prisons has not improved over the past decade. In many respects, the situation has worsened. — Rabble

Prison population

05/05/2022
‘Shocking and shameful’: For the first time, Indigenous women make up half the female population in Canada’s federal prisons
Ottawa has made countless pledges over the years to address the issue of Indigenous overrepresentation in prison. In its 2001 Speech from the Throne, the Chrétien government vowed to eliminate the disparity within a generation. Indigenous imprisonment soared under the Harper government, which introduced a series of mandatory minimum sentences that criminologists have said had a disproportionate impact on Indigenous people. — The Globe and Mail

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