It explores the realities and impact of community-based justice alternatives, their connection to health, and what is needed to affect and inspire change and address the current injustices reflected in the over-incarceration of First Nations people, Inuit, and Métis people across the country. [...] I am a member of the Lheidli T’enneh Nation, which is a First Nation here in BC made-up of over 800 band members, and its traditional and unceded territory covers all of the city of Prince George and eastward, all the way to the Alberta border, and as far to the west and to the south, until we meet up with neighboring nations completely. [...] The final program and initiative on my list – although not the final program and initiative that the Justice Council is working on – has to do with what we call Tracking Justice, and this is found under our Strategy 16 of the Justice Strategy, where we've put in a requirement that we track the progress and impact of the Justice Strategy. [...] Because I come from the position that the best way to understand any kind of social or justice issues in the community is to talk to the people who are most affected by it, and talk to the people who are most engaged, in remedying those problems in the community, right? That doesn't necessarily mean that I won't talk to police officers, but in this particular case, I didn't. [...] But I think at the end of the day when we look at Prince George specifically, it's very much a systems-based problem right? So, in Prince George it's considered to be the ‘Hub of the North;’ it's the largest city in the north and a lot of folks come from remote communities to Podcast: Voices from the Field 32 – Decarceration and health – Part 2: Dr.
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