Aboriginal Youth

1, It is generally agreed upon that aboriginal youth are over represented in pre-trial detention and custodial sentences. Do you believe that this is due to systemic discrimination from judges,police and crown attorneys? Is this true for your facility? No over 85 bein inuit, non inuit youth treated the same. Happensi s other jurisdictions in saksk 2. The Supreme Court of Canada in R v. Gladue called for judges to use specific sentencing provisions to ameliorate the …

…completion of a sentence? What type of probation programs do you have in place? Member of juctic ommite sitting on bench with judge, input from elders 6. Within your institution, what type of rehabilitative/skills programs do you provide? Do they adhere to traditional aboriginal culture? Do you have native staff to deal with cultural/linguistic divides? 7. In your opinion, how can the criminal justice system improve to remedy the problem of overrepresentation of aboriginal youth?