Canada Is Sending A Generation Of Indigenous Children To Jail

 Nearly 50 per cent of youth in Canadian jails are Indigenous.

…98 per cent (no, that is not a typo) of girls in Saskatchewan jails are Indigenous. In Manitoba, approximately 80 per cent of both girls and boys in custody are Indigenous.

…Forty-three per cent of all adult women in Canadian jails are Indigenous, yet Indigenous people make up only 5 per cent of Canada’s overall population.

Canada Is Sending A Generation Of Indigenous Children To Jail | HuffPost Canada

Whoa!

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