Exploring Theme: "Decarceration Through Self-Determination"

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...

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...