Sentences with phrase «indigenous people in jails»

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And, as Ronnie Dean Harris, one of the Indigenous leaders supporting the Burnaby blockade line, posted to social media, this is about the fact that «people may get more jail time for crossing an invisible line of an injunction than you can get for killing an Indigenous youth in this country.»

In an article titled Ottawa drops appeal of ruling that gave no jail time to aboriginal man published in The Globe and Mail edition of August 30, 2016, Sean Fine described Justice Green's ruling as a «19,000 word cri de coeur against the over-incarceration of indigenous people and a rebellion against a convention in which traffickers are sentenced according to the quantity of the drugs they were selling.&raquIn an article titled Ottawa drops appeal of ruling that gave no jail time to aboriginal man published in The Globe and Mail edition of August 30, 2016, Sean Fine described Justice Green's ruling as a «19,000 word cri de coeur against the over-incarceration of indigenous people and a rebellion against a convention in which traffickers are sentenced according to the quantity of the drugs they were selling.&raquin The Globe and Mail edition of August 30, 2016, Sean Fine described Justice Green's ruling as a «19,000 word cri de coeur against the over-incarceration of indigenous people and a rebellion against a convention in which traffickers are sentenced according to the quantity of the drugs they were selling.&raquin which traffickers are sentenced according to the quantity of the drugs they were selling.»

Meanwhile, courts are packed with accused persons suffering from addiction and mental health issues, and there are insufficient resources to allow Indigenous accuseds — already grossly overrepresented in Canada's jails and prisons — to get the support the law demands they receive.

In an article on 18 February 2016, Maclean's called Canadian jails the «new residential schools» because of «discriminatory practices and a biased system» that «work against an Indigenous accused, from the moment a person is first identified by police, to their appearance before a judge, to their hearing before a parole board.»

By comparison, for the same period there were about 696 279 non Indigenous Australians enrolled in tertiary education, while there were 20 072 non-Indigenous Australians in prison... If you applied the same principle to white Australia - i.e. the number of people in jail is only about 22 % lower than the number at university - our total prison population would expand to over 546 000 people.