Opinion: Why does the Indigenous rate of incarceration only grow?

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Lisa Kerr as an assistant professor in the faculty of law at Queen’s University in Kingston

No single factor explains these changes, but sentencing policy is part of it. Conservative policies stripped sentencing judges and parole boards of discretion, adding mandatory minimums and other limits on their ability to consider specific facts and risks of individual cases. While the Liberals opposed many of these reforms during campaign season, they have done little to address the harmful legacy of the Harper decade since taking office.

The problem of Indigenous overincarceration in Canada is a story of political and legal failure. In 1996, Parliament passed Section 718.2 of the Criminal Code with the explicit aim of addressing Indigenous overrepresentation in the prison system. The provision tells sentencing judges to exercise restraint in the use of imprisonment “with special attention to the circumstances of aboriginal offenders.

GlobeDebate racism.... don't over complicate

GlobeDebate Its a difficult issue, from what ive heard from natives reserve culture can be pretty fucked up. Living in a disfunctional community= more likely to end up in a life of crime but what do we do about it?

GlobeDebate Profiling?

GlobeDebate Because they apparently are committing more crimes

GlobeDebate Corruption at the Chief levels trickling down to rot throughout entire bands; no value placed on education, hard work or improving one's lot; objectively low mean IQ; instead ingrained behaviour to simply demand ever more gibsmedats whilst blaming the world for one's woes

GlobeDebate Why does the globe and mail not report on their and our complicity in this?

GlobeDebate Because they commit more crimes.

GlobeDebate Pfft, it's a continuation of rothschild's Cdn agents and entities' war on the indigenous peoples of the country and their culture...

GlobeDebate I think I got this one. Is it because they are committing a lot of crime? That’s my final answer.

GlobeDebate cuz of racist white male patriarchy's oppression

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