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Aboriginal Offenders - A Critical Situation
From the Office of the Correctional Investigator:
Outcome Gaps: Aboriginal vs. Non-Aboriginal Offenders
Aboriginal offenders lag significantly behind their non-Aboriginal counterparts on nearly every indicator of correctional performance and outcome. These men and women are:
- Routinely classified as higher risk and higher need in categories such as employment, community reintegration and family supports;
- Released later in their sentence (lower parole grant rates), most leave prison at Statutory Release or Warrant Expiry dates;
- Over-represented in segregation and maximum security populations;
- Disproportionately involved in use of force interventions and incidents of prison self-injury; and
- More likely to return to prison on revocation of parole, often for administrative reasons, not criminal violations.
Using statistics to demonstrate how systemic discrimination and mass incarceration in Canada as a method of controlling First Nation Peoples |