Ottawa – The Office of the Correctional Investigator’s Annual Report was tabled in Parliament last week[1], detailing what we already know: that there are significant gaps in the Correctional Service of Canada’s compliance with safe and humane standards of custody that affects Indigenous people, and that Indigenous inmates have disproportionately higher rates of use of force and face systemic racism at every turn.
The report details that Indigenous people are more likely than any other group to be involved in a use of force incident, accounting for 39% of all incidents, despite representing 28% of the prison population.