CBC Manitoba: Manitoba needs to make changes to address overrepresentation of Indigenous people in jails, experts say

A legal principle intended to ensure systemic factors that impact the background of Indigenous people are considered when they’re involved in the justice system is not helping to address their overrepresentation in Manitoba’s jails, legal scholars say.

“We are still the worst of the worst in the country” in terms of that overrepresentation, said Marc Kruse, a lawyer and the director of Indigenous legal studies at the University of Manitoba’s Robson Hall law school.

“As long as we don’t make any changes, we’ll still be the largest representation of incarcerated Indigenous peoples.”

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