, we’re talking about racial bias in Canada’s prison system.a crime and justice reporter who has been with The Globe for over 6 years. Tom has reported extensively on gun violence and racial bias. Last month, he published a years-in-the-making investigation on racial bias in Canada’s prisons.
Risk assessments, used widely within the prison system, are meant to be an impartial guide of who can be rehabilitated and how soon, but racialized inmates routinely get the worst possible scores. These assessments are steeped in decades of research – but, as The Globe found, they’re also fundamentally, powerfully biased against Indigenous and Black inmates, placing them in higher security classifications and assigning them worse odds of successfully re-entering society.
Indigenous men are roughly 30 per-cent more likely than their white counterparts to be assigned the worst possible reintegration-potential score.
tom_cardoso It's like all they talk about is race, you guys are the real racists