Talk:Over-Representation of Indigenous Individuals in Canada’s Criminal Justice System

This is a great topic, relevant to the society in which we live and definitely something worth exploring further. There is a social control component to Canada's justice system - and to some extent, it can be argued that all justice systems are put in place in order to keep societies and citizens in line. However, when we look at the intersection of aboriginal identity, poverty and incarceration, we see that over-representation of First Nations people in Canada's prisons is no accident. Aboriginal people don't necessarily commit more crimes but they are too poor to pay fines, engage in survival crimes, sometimes lack the education to understand what they are charged with, are unable to make it to court appointments, and there is often a breakdown in communication between Aboriginal defendants and their lawyers. Here is a suggested article which I think it's very enlightening on this topic https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/canadas-prisons-are-the-new-residential-schools/