Authors
The National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH)
- Pages
- 8
- Published in
- Canada
Table of Contents
- Prisons and health conditions 1
- Background 1
- Barred Over-incarceration of Indigenous people in Canadas criminal legal system the health implications and opportunities for decarceration 1
- Ill Never Forget When 2
- Mental health 2
- Mother-child programs 2
- Limitations to harm reduction practices in prisons 3
- Post-prison care 3
- Ways to reduce the number of Indigenous people in prison 4
- Criminal 4
- Code 4
- Criminal Code 4
- Criminal 4
- Code 4
- Corrections 4
- Healing lodges 5
- Corrections and Conditional Release Act 5
- Diversion programs 5
- Criminal Code 5
- Indigenous courts 5
- Criminal Code 5
- Conclusion 6
- You introduce your ignorance and intimidation only to have us brothers rebound from humiliation. 7
- You take the air I breathe from reality and spare this warrior his mentality. 7
- You try to isolate my concept of determination which does not follow your constitution. 7
- You aggravate with your authority only to bring me closer to spirituality. 7
- You view and justify our wrong by the book in your colloquial vocabulary I am the crook. 7
- You take and label us the low-life class when upon my prayers include the pipe and sweetgrass. 7
- You attempt to manipulate the spirit that is your goal for I shall remain and be strong in mind body and soul. 7
- You see whiteman I am not a follower in my sense of direction I am the leader. 7
- Barred Over-incarceration of Indigenous people in Canadas criminal legal system the health implications and opportunities for decarceration. 8
- Derrière les barreaux la surincarcération des autochtones dans le système de justice pénale canadien ses conséquences sur la santé et les possibilités de décarcération. 8
- Acknowledgements 8