Healing Ourselves: Interrogating the underutilization of Sections 81 & 84 of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: A response to the severe over-representation of Aboriginal persons in federal penitentiaries, ss.81 and 84 of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (CCRA) sought to enhance Aboriginal community involvement in corrections with the ultimate goal of reducing this representation over time.Though it has been twenty-five years since the CCRA's inception, there has been scarce utilization of the agreements established under these provisions.As a result of their unique histories and positionalities, this underutilization disproportionately impacts federally sentenced Indigenous women.Correctional Service Canada (CSC) policies and practices have contributed to this by way of security overclassification and insufficient application of Gladue principles.This underutilization is further traced to the CSC's appropriation of funding ear-marked for these agreements through redirection to their own internal programs.These activities violate the CSC's codified commitment to responding to the needs of Aboriginal persons in custody and goes against the legislative intent.Whether through a claim of discrimination, Commissioner's Directives, a legislative response * JD Candidate 2019, Peter A Allard School of
Source: Manitoba Law Journal
DOI: 10.29173/mlj1006
Author: Leah Combs
Institution: University of British Columbia
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4396716678