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Exploring Theme: "Decarceration Through Self-Determination"

Updates on this page: 2 (Filtered by Indigenous Group "Inuit")
 

April 21, 2023


Decarceration through Self-Determination: Ending the mass incarceration of Indigenous People in Canada

WE RECOMMEND THAT CANADA: Shift funding from Correctional Service Canada to Indigenous governments and organizations inthe amount of $1 billion each year, representing the approximate amount of money CSC receives to incarcerate Indigenous people, with the goal of significantly reducing the number of Indigenous people in prison and supporting autonomous Indigenous-run alternatives to incarceration, as...

April 21, 2023


Report calls on feds to strip $1B from Correctional Service of Canada budget

APTN: A prisoner advocacy organization in British Columbia says the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) should have a third of its budget stripped away and that money should be diverted towards Indigenous governments and organizations. In its report, Decarceration through Self-Determination, Prisoner’s Legal Services argues “Canada must move resources away from CSC and toward supporting self-determination...

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