A ‘sobering, disturbing crisis within our prisons’: audit questions CSC security assessment that continues to mark Indigenous, Black inmates as higher risk

Auditor General Karen Hogan found the Correctional Service Canada is using an outdated tool to determine an inmate’s risk level, which disproportionately places Black and Indigenous people in higher-security prisons, which leads to them serving longer sentences inside.

Auditor General of Canada Karen Hogan found the Correctional Service Canada did not provide timely access to correctional programs to support offenders’ reintegration into communities. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

May 31, 2022

The Correctional Service Canada has not addressed longstanding systemic barriers, including how the service classifies the “persistently disadvantaged” Black and Indigenous inmate population, leading to systemic racism in some cases, according to Auditor General K...

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