Ontario’s justice
system is in a “crisis” concerning First Nations people who are
overrepresented in prisons yet cut out of participating in juries, says a
hard-hitting independent review released Tuesday.
Former Supreme Court
justice Frank Iacobucci spent more than a year leading an investigation
into the lack of native people participating on jury trials and
inquests.
In the course of his
probe, he found he could not ignore “systemic racism” in the courts,
prison and jury process including mistreatment of First Nations inmates
in penitentiaries, general disrespect by police and “discriminatory
public reaction to First Nations complaints.”
Iacobucci urged the
Ontario government to implement 17 recommendations to fix the courts,
prison and jury process, saying the problem “warrants urgent response.”
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