State violence
The Indigenous incarceration crisis demands a bolder response: Decarceration
Canada has crossed a terrible threshold: 50 per cent of all women in federal prisons are Indigenous. The solution is not more policy tinkering. It is decarceration — the intentional and directed reduction of the number of Indigenous people in jails as a policy goal in itself.
Staggering number of Indigenous people in jail is a Canadian crisis
To call these incarceration numbers a crisis would be the understatement of the century. We cannot as a society be okay with this, and we cannot be okay with moving on from this, as we do with so many other headlines, without taking real action.