[news] Jail Conditions for Canadian Aboriginals a 'Disgrace': Ombudsman

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Aboriginal offenders are routinely discriminated against by the corrections system and are far less likely to get parole or be rehabilitated by their experiences in jail, the ombudsman for federal prisons says.

Releasing his annual report into conditions in federal prisons, correctional investigator Howard Sapers said the challenges faced by aboriginal people in Canadian jails amounts to "a nat

  


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