A report commissioned by Correctional Service Canada found serious flaws with its most important risk assessment tool and recommended the agency design a new one, an internal document obtained by The and...
INVESTIGATION: Racial bias in Canada's prisons
In Canada, federal inmates' risk assessments determine everything from where a prisoner is incarcerated to what rehabilitation programs they are offered. After controlling for a number of variables, The Globe found Black and Indigenous inmates are more likely to get worse scores than white inmates, based solely on their race
Before going to prison in 2017, Patricia Whyte never thought much about her Mi’kmaw heritage. She’d been convicted of several charges, including a break-and-enter – the culmination of a series of tragic...
FIRST IMPRESSIONS After a year spent staring at the walls of his cell at the Sudbury Jail, Nicholas Nootchtai finally had his sentence. Twelve years. Manslaughter. It had been less than a week since the...
Risk assessments are meant to be an impartial guide of who can be rehabilitated and how soon, but racialized inmates routinely get the worst possible scores. They’re steeped in decades of research – and...
A little over two years ago, I dropped a letter in the mail. I had begun to wonder, after a series of high-profile criminal cases – Gerald Stanley and Raymond Cormier’s trials, specifically – had ended...