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The number of black people in Canadian federal prisons grew by nearly 70% over the past decade, while the Indigenous prisoner population grew by more than half, Canada’s prison watchdog says.
Howard Sapers, Correctional Investigator of Canada, tabled yet another alarming annual report in Parliament on Thursday, saying that the safety of Canada’s prisons has “progressively deteriorated.”
“The number of use of force incidents have almost doubled, admissions to administrative segregation increased by 15.5%, incidents of prison self-injury have tripled, prison crowding hit all-time highs and parole grant rates bottomed out,” the report says.
Among 18 recommendations, Sapers wants the Correctional Service of Canada to ban the use of solitary confinement — which is only supposed to be used when absolutely necessary — altogether for severely mentally ill prisoners.
The correctional service relies too heavily on administrative segregation to manage mentally ill, self-injurious, and suicidal prisoners, Sapers said.
Sapers also warned about the over-representation of minorities in prisons. The number of federally incarcerated black offenders grew by 69% between 2005 and 2015, his report says. The incarceration rate for black people is now three times higher than their representation rate in the general public.
Meanwhile, Indigenous people now comprise more than 25% of federal inmates.

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Source: BuzzFeed

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