Correctional service given too much discretion in new gender-diverse policy

Misgendering Indigenous people in prison is abuse of a demographic that is already subject to significant discrimination and harm.

The new CSC policy sets gender-diverse people up for harm, and also leaves them with little recourse when their rights are violated. NWAC implores the CSC and Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, pictured, to fix this policy before any more harms occur, writes Sarah Niman. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SARAH NIMAN

April 27, 2022

A new corrections policy fails Indigenous gender-diverse people by leaving them vulnerable to abuses that Canadian human rights laws were meant to prevent. The Correctional Service of Canada's (CSC) new policy for gender-diverse offenders is designed to meet the agency’s legal duty to grant inmat...

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