A recent report says Canada’s progress in addressing the overrepresentation of Black and Indigenous offenders in prisons is slow, with reports trickling in that some are facing even worse conditions than 10 years ago.
The country’s prison watchdog reports that rampant racial discrimination and systemic deprivation were pervasive and persistent.
Ivan Zinger, Correctional Investigator, says he is disappointed that the agency in charge of Canadian prisons has failed to recognize its role in reversing the crisis of overrepresentation.
Zinger’s annual report includes an updated investigation of the experience of Black prisoners and the first part of an investigation focused on Indigenous people in the system.
The report also contains an inquiry into the restrictive nature of confinement in male maximum security institutions and unravelled the fact that federal legislation has failed to stop the creation and extension of conditions that allow segregation to thrive.
18 recommendations were made to the federal government by Zinger, including 8 geared toward improving the condition of Black prisoners. He also made a frantic call to appoint a deputy commissioner focused on Indigenous corrections.
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