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Twenty-Five Years of Gladue: - Indigenous ‘Over-Incarceration’ & the Failure of the Criminal Justice System on the Grand River

10 Jul 2024

Over the course of the event, experts in the application of In this Special Report, we describe each of these Gladue oered their perspectives, and a team from issues, pairing the existing research on the application Yellowhead Institute facilitated a conversation that of Gladue with perspectives shared by experts and ultimately shaped the conclusions of this report. [...] circles that allow the oender, community members, Moreover, it emphasizes that Indigenous legal and members of the Court to speak and be heard and cultural practices be included and tailored to when discussing the impacts of the person’s actions the specic needs of all involved. [...] It involves a determination of leading to potential misrepresentations and a “No Gladue Report,” which serves as a rebuttal to exploitation of the Gladue principles." At the BRISC false claims of Indigeneity and ultimately puts the workshop, numerous Gladue and court workers and onus on the judge. [...] ere now these [non-Indigenous] people are coming for is no requirement to validate the accused’s claim of our very identities and exacerbating the challenges Indigenous identity; rather, the Justice of the Peace colonization wrought in the rst place.” To that point, and Crown Attorney agree to record that the Court as identity fraud challenges the capacity of Gladue has considered the circumstance. [...] While deeply critical of policing, the echoed by BRISC participants who frequently spoke Inquiry also found the “use of Gladue reports and of both the lack of justice for their families and the sentencing principles are not adequately explained lack of safety felt in the community when oenders to families and survivors.
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