It may be of little
surprise to some, but the over-incarceration of First Nations and
African-Canadian people in Ontario should be of concern to everyone in
this country.
The overrepresentation
of these two groups in Ontario’s correctional system signals that
aboriginals and blacks are either disproportionately involved in crime
or they face discrimination in the administration of justice; available
research indicates both to be true.
Why should we work to remedy this?
As the situation in
many American states has made apparent, using incarceration as a means
of controlling populations that are viewed as problematic in an effort
to reduce crime is a costly endeavour that further intensifies the
problems facing these communities rather than making them better. A
smarter approach would be to deal with the causes of crime rather than
the consequences. This is particularly true in the face of Prime
Minister Stephen Harper’s tough-on-crime agenda.
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