The ‘afterlife of slavery’: defund, reform Canada’s prisons, advocates call, after watchdog says ‘very little’ has improved for Black inmates

‘It’s a racist system. We live it,’ says one Black prisoner of Canada's correctional system. ‘We’re seen as rigid, defiant, very combative, non-compliant. These are the labels we get.’

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair oversees the Correctional Service of Canada, which advocates say needs to address systemic racism, given the outcomes of its Black inmates. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

June 17, 2020

Seven years after Canada’s prison watchdog report detailed the systemic discrimination Black men and women experience inside the country’s prisons, the office says “very l...

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