#indigenous-prisoners

It is getting to be a real crime. All is not well in Canada’s prison system and Public Safety minister Ralph Goodale, charged with making it better, is working against the clock. In fact, a fuse is hissing

Canada’s Correctional Investigator said the number of Indigenous people locked up in prisons across the country is now a human rights issue. “That the incarceration rate for Indigenous people keeps climbing

The government of Alberta is being lambasted in a review of Canada’s justice system as the only province to keep secret the number of Indigenous people it has locked up over the last five years. The criticism