NCJ Number
116763
Journal
Justice Report Volume: 6 Issue: 1 Dated: (Winter 1989) Pages: 8-18
Date Published
1989
Length
11 pages
Annotation
Summaries are provided of Canadian Bar Association recommendations on justice systems for Native peoples, inmate rights and programs, and parole and early release.
Abstract
It is recommended that alternative justice systems for Native peoples be explored, that Native communities be encouraged to develop diversion and sentencing initiatives incorporating Native values and concerns, that they should be enabled to assume control of correctional processes affecting them, that Native religious programs be made available, and that affirmative action programs be developed for Native professional staff. Recommendations on inmate rights and programs cover legal education, postsentencing role of counsel, judicial and continuing legal education, alternate dispute resolution, the need for a correctional statement of purpose, and the purpose of and inmate rights in disciplinary processes. Others consider the provincial correctional system, loss of earned remission, model inmate transfer and segregation codes, special handling units, information disclosure, searches, inmate grievance procedures, inmate self-government, and female inmates. It also is recommended that parole be retained and that reforms be instituted in the early release system. The use of electronic monitoring as an alternative to incarceration also is discussed.