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Tackling The Over Representation Of Indigenous People In Justice System

by: Redeye Collective

Publication date: 2021-05-23

Usage: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

Topics: Indigenous, justice, system, criminal, jail, over-representation, First, Nations, racism, systemic, Gladue, report

Language: English

Over-representation of Indigenous peoples in the criminal justice system is an ongoing crisis in Canada. In B.C., the First Nations Justice Council is implementing a strategy to bring down the number of people who become involved with the criminal justice system. Mitch Walker is with the First Nations Justice Council and he joins us today to talk about this strategy and more specifically, Gladue reports, which can play a pivotal role in this new approach.