This time, inmates’ Indigenous identity is the crux of the issue. “I have always been close to nature,” he told Hachey, which is nice. As you might expect, the situation is going down rather poorly with some actual Indigenous inmates. An obvious solution would be to ask inmates to verify their Indigenous identity before admitting them to programming designed specifically and exclusively for Indigenous inmates. But a goal of reducing Indigenous overrepresentation, as opposed to the number of Indigenous inmates per se, requires non-Indigenous inmates to stick around.

Source: National Post May 08, 2019 19:41 UTC