For decades, indigenous women in Canada have been incarcerated in federal prisons at much higher rates than the rest of the population. The country's highest court has even called it a crisis and ...

Not only does the cruel punishment persist (more on that later), its use inflicts exceptional harm on the over 6,000 women currently in Canada’s prisons. In addition to the emotional strain ...

Recently released figures from the Office of the Correctional Investigator show that indigenous women comprise almost 50 percent of Canada’s female inmate population in federally run prisons.

Mr. Sapers, who served as Canada’s prisons ombudsman from 2004 to 2016, said he’s used to seeing CSC respond to problems with a flurry of plans and priorities.

Previously, before Bill C-16 became law, the federal government defended its policy of disallowing preoperative males into women’s prisons in Kavanagh v.Canada, which was heard by the Canadian ...

AILSA CHANG, HOST: For decades, indigenous women in Canada have been incarcerated in federal prisons at much higher rates than the rest of the population.