Nunatsiaq News – Jury recommendations to Correctional Services Canada after suicide of an Inuit inmate include:
• Correctional Service Canada (CSC) should make the Anijaarniq Strategy, a holistic Inuit strategy to better understand the needs of Inuit in federal custody, publicly available and ensure CSC staff know how to implement it properly.
• CSC should explore ways to better understand and meaningfully address barriers to recruiting Inuit elders.
• With mental health practitioners, including Indigenous health practitioners, CSC should identify whether suicide prevention tools should be updated to take into account Indigenous social realities.
• Orientation training should be provided to Inuit elders and Inuit liaison officers … [including] how to review entries to the inmate management system to ensure that events and interactions are accurately reflected.
• Conflict resolution, healing circles and elders should be considered before an increase to security classification and or a transfer recommendation is made.
Jury Recommendations to Correctional Services Canada
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