‘Child welfare to prison pipeline’ feeding rising Indigenous incarceration rates – APTN News

January 23, 2020

Renu Mandhane has visited Ontario’s provincial jails in northern Ontario where inmates largely identity as First Nation.

In fact, Mandhane visited the Thunder Bay, Ont. jail last Tuesday in her official role as the chief commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission.

“I did a walk through and I asked the superintendent there how many of the folks were Indigenous and he said about 75 per cent of the population,” said Mandhane on Nation to Nation Thursday.

“I’ve been to the Kenora jail where they told me it was close to 100 per cent.”

Mandhane also previously dug into Ontario’s child welfare population finding First Nations children represent a higher rate of children in care compared to other races.

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