Aboriginal’s crime rates are high; they account a large portion of Canada’s inmates. Problems
persist on how correctional facilities deal with the needs of the Aboriginal people, the complexity of
their cultures makes it hard for corrections to treat them like any other inmate. For this reason the
aboriginals go through different cultural interventions that help rehabilitate within the corrections or
through their communities. While Canadians correctional institutions are setting in Policies such as to
further meet the needs of the aboriginal people, they are not succeeding with rehabilitating aboriginals
during their stay in and out the Correctional system because of statistics, self-conflict, stereotypes, and
lack of support …show more content…
7). In reducing this problem the government had to change “several legal and
policy amendments” in the Canadian legal system to counter the over representation and to better
educate aboriginal people (Hurst, 2014, p.7). The supreme court of Canada came upon the decision
through the court case of R v. Gladue which recognized certain disadvantages aboriginals go through in
the Criminal justice system, this meant that sentencing judges reviewed the history of the aboriginal
individuals to see if a long sentence would be a smart choice for the well being of the offender (Hurst,
2014). Many different factors are thought out during the “Gladue principles” such as if the offender had
a negative experience in the residential school systems, if they lacked the appropriate education during
their adolescence years, lacked a source of income, and or lived in unstable conditions (Hurst, 2014).
Hurst (1990) states that certain provisions started to give aboriginals more specific provisions. An
example from section …show more content…
Martel, Brassard, & Jaccoud (2011) argued that aboriginal
offenders don 't fill the “criteria” (p. 239) set to get to remedial programming in light of the fact that
they have a tendency to fit in with a remedial sub-gathering characterized actuarial as exhibiting high
dangers of recidivism. Subsequently, the current danger based praxis renders native guilty parties right
to gain entrance to restorative programming rather indeterminate. Through the programs that are
being provided in the correctional facilities they are contributing to the one major reaction and that is
the Canadian reintegration programs basically go for reminding native offenders of their social legacy
with the expectation that they will get back in touch with their true selves (Martel, Brassard, & Jaccoud
2011). The Aboriginal offender that go through the the slow phase of rehabilitation provide different
sources of well being, Martel, Brassard, & Jaccoud (2011) explain that “extant literature” provides
“higher participation” along side of the “completion rates” in the programs (p. 242). The rate of
persist on how correctional facilities deal with the needs of the Aboriginal people, the complexity of
their cultures makes it hard for corrections to treat them like any other inmate. For this reason the
aboriginals go through different cultural interventions that help rehabilitate within the corrections or
through their communities. While Canadians correctional institutions are setting in Policies such as to
further meet the needs of the aboriginal people, they are not succeeding with rehabilitating aboriginals
during their stay in and out the Correctional system because of statistics, self-conflict, stereotypes, and
lack of support …show more content…
7). In reducing this problem the government had to change “several legal and
policy amendments” in the Canadian legal system to counter the over representation and to better
educate aboriginal people (Hurst, 2014, p.7). The supreme court of Canada came upon the decision
through the court case of R v. Gladue which recognized certain disadvantages aboriginals go through in
the Criminal justice system, this meant that sentencing judges reviewed the history of the aboriginal
individuals to see if a long sentence would be a smart choice for the well being of the offender (Hurst,
2014). Many different factors are thought out during the “Gladue principles” such as if the offender had
a negative experience in the residential school systems, if they lacked the appropriate education during
their adolescence years, lacked a source of income, and or lived in unstable conditions (Hurst, 2014).
Hurst (1990) states that certain provisions started to give aboriginals more specific provisions. An
example from section …show more content…
Martel, Brassard, & Jaccoud (2011) argued that aboriginal
offenders don 't fill the “criteria” (p. 239) set to get to remedial programming in light of the fact that
they have a tendency to fit in with a remedial sub-gathering characterized actuarial as exhibiting high
dangers of recidivism. Subsequently, the current danger based praxis renders native guilty parties right
to gain entrance to restorative programming rather indeterminate. Through the programs that are
being provided in the correctional facilities they are contributing to the one major reaction and that is
the Canadian reintegration programs basically go for reminding native offenders of their social legacy
with the expectation that they will get back in touch with their true selves (Martel, Brassard, & Jaccoud
2011). The Aboriginal offender that go through the the slow phase of rehabilitation provide different
sources of well being, Martel, Brassard, & Jaccoud (2011) explain that “extant literature” provides
“higher participation” along side of the “completion rates” in the programs (p. 242). The rate of