[Indigsol] Indigenous People and the Criminal Injustice System

[mattm-b at resist.ca]

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Indigenous People and the Criminal Injustice System
Part of Prisoner Justice Week!

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Tuesday, March 24 at 7pm
Exile Infoshop (256 Bank St.)
ipsmo at riseup.net
http://ipsmo.wordpress.com/
Sorry this event is not wheelchair accessible.
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Indigenous People and the Criminal Injustice System

Kim Pate –Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry
Societies

Sheila Grantham –Researcher on The “Aboriginal Women and Stigma” Project
   (www.carleton.ca/aboriginalwomenandstigmaresearch/)


	Indigenous people are massively over represented in the Canadian criminal
injustice and caging (prison) system.  Not only are they overly
represented, but the punishments they receive are often overly harsh and
punitive –even if we accept the criminal injustice system’s standards of
crime and punishment.
        But indigenous people are also more likely to be the victims of
crime than non-indigenous people, and these crimes are often not
addressed.  The 511 documented cases of missing and murdered
indigenous women are a clear example of this fact; the percentage
of these cases that have not yet been solved is significantly
higher than those where the missing or murdered women were, for
example, white women.


-- 
"All oppression is relative.
All oppression is specific."

- Albert Memmi