Sentences with phrase «indigenous women in prison»

There is also a clear connection between incarceration of Indigenous women and being a victim of violence — there are extremely high rates of substance abuse and reporting of having been a victim of violence among Indigenous female prisoners — this highlights the need for support programs for Indigenous women in prison and also post-release (such as healing and re-integration, housing etc).

Studies of Indigenous women in prison reveal experiences of life in a society fraught with danger from violence.

An important form of healing is through one - on - one support, such as mentoring provided by Indigenous Elders for Indigenous women in prison or who have recently been released from prison.

Not exact matches

Our CEDAW Report Card, released last week, notes repeatedly that the province is failing to make significant progress on equality for women and girls in BC, for example by failing to follow through on the recommendations of the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and to ensure the safety and human rights of women and girls in prison.

Indigenous women are drastically over-represented in BC's female prison population.

If you don't know how it is that so many reserves live in poverty, or why the prisons are full of our people, or why there are so many suicides, boil - water advisories, why there are so many Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, why any of the dysfunction and failure and tragedy that is the «Indian Problem» in this country exists, look for your answer in the Gerald Stanley verdict.

Indigenous women now make up nearly 35 % of the women incarcerated in federal prisons, while representing only about 5 % of the Canadian female population.

Women are twice as likely as men to enter prison with a mental health diagnosis, and Indigenous women are vastly over-represented among women in prison and women in soliWomen are twice as likely as men to enter prison with a mental health diagnosis, and Indigenous women are vastly over-represented among women in prison and women in soliwomen are vastly over-represented among women in prison and women in soliwomen in prison and women in soliwomen in solitary.

West Coast LEAF described the discriminatory impact of solitary confinement on Indigenous people by highlighting the experiences of Indigenous women, who are the fastest growing segment of the prison population in Canada and are overrepresented both among incarcerated women and among women being held in solitary confinement.

Disproportionately high numbers of Indigenous women in Canadian prisons, many of whom are themselves the victims of violence and abuse

Most notable, perhaps, is the sobering fact that Indigenous women and girls are disturbingly over-represented in provincial prisons.

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For Indigenous women, over-representation is more pronounced: one third of women incarcerated in federal prisons are Indigenous.

As reported in the Social Justice Report 2002, preliminary findings of a Victorian study on the prison population in that state found a rate of re-offending of 71 % among Indigenous women compared to a rate of 61 % average in 2000 among the female population.

As a result, I have recommended better coordination of programs at the state and territory level and that a national roundtable of government and community be convened to talk about how all agencies can work together to better support Indigenous women leaving prison and to also talk about the successful models that might be useful in other parts of the country.

The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) SA, Aboriginal Services Unit and the Community Corrections Division in partnership with Aboriginal Hostels Unit have developed a Prison Release and Diversion Hostel specifically for Indigenous women (see later in the chapter for discussion of Karinga Hostel).

The consultations revealed that authorities often remark on the relatively low proportion of Indigenous women in NT prisons as a reason for not providing dedicated post-release accommodation facilities for Indigenous women.

Third, a further concern raised by a number of participants in consultations related to the limited availability of pre-release supports to prepare Indigenous women for their release from prison.

Indigenous women also find it difficult to access the private rental market at the best of times, and time spent in prison only exacerbates the difficulties.

(16) However, over the same time period the Indigenous female prison population increased from 111 women in 1993 (17) to 381 women in 2003.

The high recidivism rate of Indigenous women contributes to the increasing over-representation of Indigenous women in Australian prisons.

Accordingly, the inter-connections between the experiences of Indigenous women prior to and during imprisonment must be borne in mind when considering program support provided to them upon release from prison.

The post-release worker from Yulawirri Nurai, an Aboriginal organisation in NSW providing post-release support to Indigenous women exiting NSW prisons says that the women she works with come from a range of family situations and experiences.

Examples of projects such as Karinga Hostel in Adelaide and the Corrections Housing Pathways Initiative in Victoria demonstrate that creative, cost effective approaches can be adopted which are consistent with the right to housing and which overcome the practical difficulty of the relatively small numbers (in absolute terms) of Indigenous women exiting prison at any one time.

While there are other services available to women in Victoria, that will assist them in locating accommodation such as Melbourne City Mission's Supporting Women Exiting Prisons program, none of them are Indigenous female specific, provide direct accommodation or specifically focus on women post-relwomen in Victoria, that will assist them in locating accommodation such as Melbourne City Mission's Supporting Women Exiting Prisons program, none of them are Indigenous female specific, provide direct accommodation or specifically focus on women post-relWomen Exiting Prisons program, none of them are Indigenous female specific, provide direct accommodation or specifically focus on women post-relwomen post-release.

The Committee notes its concerns in the findings which include the abolition of ATSIC; the continuing gap between Indigenous peoples and others in the areas of housing, employment, health and income; the continued existence of mandatory sentencing in Western Australia; the over representation of Indigenous peoples in prison, continued deaths in custody, Aboriginal women as the fastest growing prison population; and the Government's rejection of most of the recommendations adopted by the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation in 2000.8

A study of Indigenous women in NSW prisons revealed that prior to their incarceration approximately 55 % (of the research participants) had lived in public housing, 18 % private rental, 15 % said they were homeless or had no fixed address, 7 % lived in housing provided by Aboriginal housing services and 5 % said they lived in caravan parks.

This raises an issue in terms of the priority which governments should attach to the situation of Indigenous women upon release from prison.

For example, preliminary findings of a Victorian study on the prison population found a rate of re-offending of 71 percent among Indigenous women compared to a rate of 61 percent average in 2000 among the female population.

In recent discussions with communities concerning issues faced by Indigenous women exiting prison, one of the concerns raised was the difficulties many Indigenous people faced in accessing employment after their release from prisoIn recent discussions with communities concerning issues faced by Indigenous women exiting prison, one of the concerns raised was the difficulties many Indigenous people faced in accessing employment after their release from prisoin accessing employment after their release from prison.

In the Northern Territory, Indigenous women constituted 57 percent of the total female prison population and 26 per cent of the female population of the Northern Territory.

The workers at Elizabeth Hoffman House, a crisis accommodation service for Indigenous women located in Melbourne said that Aboriginal women being released from prison have very few options.

the significant role of violence and abuse as a causative factor in Indigenous women entering and then re-entering prison at alarmingly high rates;

Although there are less Indigenous women in custody they are currently the fastest growing prison population and are severely overrepresented.

Many Indigenous women released from prison also have drug related and / or mental health issues which can exacerbate problems in obtaining suitable housing.

For example, in New South Wales, the Select Committee into the Increase in Prison Population found in 2001 that the most significant contributing factor to increases in the rates of incarceration of Indigenous women was the increase in the remand population.

The Indigenous female prison population increased by 262 % between 1991 and 1999 (compared to an increase in non-Indigenous women of 185 %).