Federal watchdogs and members of Parliament are pressing Canada’s top corrections officials to improve conditions for Black and Indigenous offenders who are serving time in federal prisons.
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“The auditor general is yelling at the top of her lungs about the conditions that are often facing Indigenous and Black people in Canada,” he said at a Thursday meeting of the public accounts committee, wiping away tears as he spoke.Auditor general Karen Hogan, who also appeared at the committee, found in a report earlier this year that the service “failed to identify and eliminate systemic barriers that persistently disadvantaged certain groups of offenders.
He added that the broader inmate population is being left in a “state of destitution” with no way to get ahead. Inmates who work in prison haven’t had a pay raise since 1981, he said, when wages were set at $6.90 a day. It’s hardly enough to pay for items such as toothpaste and soap, which are not provided for free.
“While CSC cannot influence the decisions that bring offenders into our custody, it is our responsibility to improve outcomes for offenders by providing them opportunities for effective rehabilitation,” she said at the Thursday committee hearing. Kelly said the rating scale is only one component in a comprehensive process to determine the security level of federally sentenced offenders.
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