It\u0027s also a rate almost twice as high as that of any other Indigenous group in the province
At the jail in Amos, Que., he was fed raw food — he says he believes guards stereotypically assumed Inuit people eat raw meat. He said he was forced to quarantine for 28 days, adding he had limited access to showers and phone calls with family during that time.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Boudreau said programs aimed at preventing crime and diverting offenders from the justice system are often not available in Quebec’s Nunavik region, home to the majority of Inuit who live in the province. As a result, he said, Inuit offenders are more likely to be jailed rather than sentenced to house arrest or given conditional sentences.
Mylene Jaccoud, a criminology professor at Universite de Montreal who studies the criminalization of Indigenous people in Quebec, said that while non-Inuit Indigenous Peoples are over-represented in provincial jails, there’s an “over, over-representation of Inuit.” “The Cree have taken charge of their administration of justice, while the Inuit have not. That’s a big difference,” Jaccoud said, adding that most police officers in the region aren’t Inuit. Of the 88 officers who worked at the Nunavik Police Service in May 2022, only four were Inuit, while about 90 per cent of the people they serve are Inuit.There is no jail in the North, so detainees are usually sent to Amos, Que., more than 1,000 kilometres south of Nunavik’s largest community of Kuujjuaq.
Ilgun, who worked as a firefighter and paramedic for 15 years, said he was left with post-traumatic stress disorder after he was unable to save a relative who had suffered a serious injury. A colleague underwent similar trauma and took his own life, he said.
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