John Howard Society says up-to-date data on Indigenous incarceration in N.L. 'extremely important'

AI Briefing

• – Indigenous people make up 41.4% of the prison population in N.L., despite making up only 16.7% of the population.
• – The province's Indigenous population has been overrepresented in the justice system for decades, with Indigenous people accounting for 70.9% of all sentenced offenders in 2020.
• – The John Howard Society is calling for policy changes to address the root causes of Indigenous overrepresentation in the justice system.