State violence
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.
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.