Report summary - Barred: Over-incarceration of Indigenous people in Canada’s criminal legal system, the health implications, and opportunities for decarceration

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