SOC301H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Visible Minority, Global Issue, Sentenced
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They"re signi cantly overrepresented in canadian prisons and the prison works against these individuals. In 2018, aboriginal adults comprised on 30% of provincial custody and 29% of federal. In comparison to 10 years ago, aboriginal males comprised on 28% of provincial custody and 42% of provincial institutions for females. Aboriginal inmates serve more of their sentence in the institution before their release. They"re more likely to spend more time in segregation. Aboriginal inmates are overrepresented in maximum security prisons. Roberts and reid (2017): they examined aboriginal incarceration over 4 years. Three examples being australia, (15x higher than non-aboriginals; 25% of overall incarceration), new zealand (15% overall population but 50% of prisoner population), us. Aboriginal remand rates are high and they are also more likely to be sentenced to prison than non-aboriginals in some jurisdictions. The aboriginal admissions has signi cantly increased and the average percentage between. The analysis saw that nunavut had a 100% aboriginal admission rate.
