Federal watchdogs and members of Parliament are pressing Canada's top corrections officials to improve conditions for Black and Indigenous offenders who are serving time in federal prisons. Two House of Commons committees honed in on the state of Canadian prisons this week, with MPs from all parties offering a scathing rebuke of the prison system.
Federal watchdogs and members of Parliament are pressing Canada's top corrections officials to improve conditions for Black and Indigenous offenders who are serving time in federal prisons.
"The over-representation of Indigenous and Black offenders in custody has worsened with higher security classifications, the late delivery of correctional programs and the delayed access to release on parole," her May report said.The latest annual report from the Office of the Correctional Investigator of Canada also found -- and not for the first time -- that Canada was failing its Black and Indigenous prison populations.
Zinger said that the Correctional Service Canada is "very good at producing a lot of corporate documents" -- but that work "doesn't filter down to the penitentiary floor." Hogan's report had found that Indigenous and Black men were placed in maximum security prisons at twice the rate of other offenders.
But she said the federal agency has ramped up its efforts to ensure what it is doing is "reliable and valid."
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