Indigenous Inmate Population Rises
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•Indigenous population of incarcerated women still rising despite calls to action
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Indigenous population of incarcerated women still rising despite calls to action.
Percentage of Indigenous inmates in federal women’s prisons has risen steadily over the last 20 years .
Truth and Reconciliation Commission called on federal, provincial and territorial governments to eliminate the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in custody over the next decade .
Ottawa invested $51.3 million in Budget 2017 to reduce Indigenous overrepresentation in the criminal justice system.
Section 81 allows for Indigenous inmates in federal prisons to serve their sentence in an Indigenous community.
In 2022-23 there was a 144 per cent increase from the previous year in the total number of Indigenous offenders transferred to CSC Healing Lodge facilities.
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