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Exploring Theme: "Decarceration Through Self-Determination"
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August 28, 2023
Indigenous organizations and legal aid clinic rebuke Canada for mass incarceration of Indigenous people, call for redirection of funding to Indigenous governments and organizations as part of Canada’s human rights review by the United Nations
NationTalk: GENEVA – Today, Dene lawyer Jennifer Duncan is in Geneva leading up to Canada’s 4thUniversal Periodic Review (UPR) Pre-Session to draw international attention to Canada’s continued mass incarceration of Indigenous people. Jennifer Duncan is voicing the calls of the BC First Nations Justice Council (BCFNJC), the BC Assembly of First Nations (BCAFN), the Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) and Prisoners’ Legal Services (PLS) for...
April 21, 2023
Decarceration through Self-Determination: Ending the mass incarceration of Indigenous People in Canada
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...
April 21, 2023
Report calls on feds to strip $1B from Correctional Service of Canada budget
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...