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Office of the Correctional Investigator

A Case Study of Diversity in Corrections:
The Black Inmate Experience in Federal Penitentiaries
Final Report

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION AND SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATION

METHODOLOGY

CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND

Legislative and Policy Framework
Profile of Federally Sentenced Black inmates

ANALYSIS: CORRECTIONAL EXPERIENCES OF BLACK INMATES

Population Management
Cultural Needs of Black Inmates are not being met
Conditions of Confinement

ANALYSIS: CORRECTIONAL OUTCOMES OF BLACK INMATES

DISCUSSION

What does Diversity mean for CSC?

KEY FINDINGS

REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION AND SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATION

1. The face of Canadian corrections is changing. As the Canadian population has become increasingly diverse so too has the federal offender population. The visible minority¹offender population (community and incarcerated) has increased over the past 5 years by 40%. Visible minorities now constitute 18% of the total federally sentenced offender population (those incarcerated and in the community) which is largely consistent with representation rates in Canadian society (19.1%)². In 2011/12, Caucasians continued to make up the largest proportion of the federal offender population (62.3%). By comparison, Aboriginals represented 19.3%, Blacks 8.6%, Asians³ 5.4%, and Hispanics⁴ 0.9% of the population respectively⁵. Increasing diversity presents important challenges for the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), particularly with respect to the relevancy of programs and services as well as representative hiring and the need for greater staff cultural competence, awareness and sensitivity.

2. Prejudice and bias, particularly with respect to Aboriginal peoples, have been well documented in studies and inquiries of the Canadian criminal justice system⁶. However, little Canadian research has systematically explored the treatment of visible minorities within the criminal justice system and even less so on their experiences in correctional facilities, primarily because of the lack of or limited access to data. The principal Canadian study in this field, conducted by The Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System⁷, examined the extent to which criminal justice practices, procedures and policies in the police, courts and correctional institutions in Ontario reflected systemic racism. Overall, the Commission found evidence of systemic racism within each of the components of the criminal justice system and made a number of recommendations to improve its accountability. Specifically, with respect to correctional institutions, the Commission found evidence of pervasive racial hostility and intolerance within prison environments, racial segregation of inmates within and among prisons and racial inequality in regards to the delivery of institutional services. While this study is now dated and was conducted in provincial institutions in only one province, it provides important contextual information, both from a qualitative and quantitative perspective, on the experiences of Black inmates⁸ and visible minorities more generally, within the Canadian criminal justice system and provides a foundation for the present case study.

3. The 2011/12 Annual Report of the Office of the Correctional Investigator (OCI) identified Black⁹ inmates as one of the fastest growing sub-populations in federal corrections. It highlighted the increasing over-representation of this group relative to their proportion within the Canadian population. Over the last 10 years, the number of federally incarcerated Black inmates has increased by 75% (767 Black inmates in 2002/03 to 1340 Black inmates in 2011/12) with most of this increase occurring in the last 6 years (2006/07 to 2011/12)¹⁰. Black inmates now account for 9.3%¹¹ of the total federal prison population (up from 6.1% in 2002/03) while representing approximately just 2.9%¹² of the Canadian population (see diagram)

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Les Anglo-Québécois, une minorité ostracisée?

Un récent sondage CBC-Ekos faisait ressortir que la moitié des non-francophones du Québec ont sérieusement songé à quitter le Québec lors de la dernière année. Sur le plan statistique, le départ des anglophones du Québec vers d’autres provinces n’est pas un phénomène nouveau. Il s’est amorcé après la Première Guerre mondiale, s’est constamment maintenu et a connu un pic avec l’élection du Parti québécois en 1976. Par ailleurs, et même si les individus de langue maternelle anglaise représentent aujourd’hui moins de 8 % de la population, on ne peut vraiment pas dire qu’au Québec, l’anglais est absent de l’espace public, surtout à Montréal, où l’anglicisation est significative, et qu’il n’est pas attrayant auprès de l’immigration.

 

Ce type de sondage sur l’humeur anglophone du Québec n’est pas nouveau et il revient ponctuellement dans l’actualité. Des sondages similaires, mais effectués cette fois-là chez les francophones hors Québec n’existent pas. Pourtant, il serait intéressant de pouvoir comparer même si on imagine que les résultats obtenus seraient probablement fort différents… Mais voilà !, on se préoccupe peu de l’humeur de la francophonie hors Québec. Revenons donc à notre sondage. La minorité anglophone du Québec joue bien son rôle de minorité ostracisée, et c’est pourquoi le sondage CBC-Ekos s’adresse aussi aux Québécois francophones. Il cible en effet le sentiment de culpabilité qui est entretenu au sein de la majorité francophone qui, sait-on jamais, voudrait renforcer la promotion du français au Québec (surtout si elle songe à élire un gouvernement souverainiste). Déjà, on le voit dans les médias, quelques francophones se disent horrifiés des résultats du sondage et appellent à l’accommodement linguistique.Bon il est évident que M. Braën n’a pas consulter aucun anglophones sur les raisons qui les pousseraient à quitter le Québec et que son analyse des chiffres manquent d’observations sur le terrain , ce qui lui fait écrire que selon lui se problème de vouloir quitter le Québec ne se limite qu’aux anglophones quand plus de 70% des immigrants francophones quitteront le Québec a l’intérieur d’une période de cinq ans .

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Quebec election shooting suspect faces 16 charges

By ROB GILLIES

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Updated: 8:56 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012

Published: 12:12 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012

MONTREAL — The suspect in a deadly shooting at a rally following the election of Quebec's new separatist premier was arraigned Thursday on 16 charges, including murder, attempted murder and possession of explosives.

Richard Henry Bain, 61, of La Conception, Quebec, made his first appearance in court behind protective glass after being accused of opening fire outside the midnight victory rally Tuesday for Pauline Marois of the Parti Quebecois. Prosecutors said that after the shooting, Bain used a flare to light a small fire.

The heavyset Bain, dressed in white, appeared calm and alert during his appearance in the highly secured courtroom. He spoke briefly with his court-appointed lawyer but did not address the court, and there was no plea. Bain is scheduled to return to court Oct. 11.

The shooting killed Denis Blanchette, 48, and wounded a 27-year-old just outside a Montreal theater. The suspect's gun jammed after the initial shots were fired, a Quebec police official said Thursday, possibly saving lives.

Prosecutor Eliane Perreault said outside the courtroom that Bain had two weapons on him and three more in his car nearby. She said the weapon used in the shooting was a legally registered long gun.

Weapons charges include negligent storage of weapons and ammunition. Among the weapons in his possession were a 9 mm Luger, a Beretta, a Ceska Zbrojovka carbine, a semi-automatic 22LR and .357 Magnum revolver.

Bain, who owns a hunting and fishing lodge, had many more guns at home including shotguns, almost all of which were registered, Perreault said.

When asked if Bain targeted the premier, Perreault said only that there might be additional charges. She said authorities were continuing to investigate the motive.

Bain was in a "proper state of mind" to appear in court after spending some time in a hospital, she said.

Elferide Duclercville, Bain's court-appointed lawyer, said she had not been able to meet her client before court and was rushing after the hearing to continue their brief discussion of a few seconds while he was in the box.

Police have said there is no reason to believe anyone else was involved in the shooting.

Marois was whisked off the stage by guards and was not injured. She called the shooting an isolated event and said it was probably a case of a person who has "serious health issues."

The attack shocked Canadians, who are not used to such violence at political events and have long worried that gun violence more often seen in the U.S. could become more common in their country.

Neighbors and acquaintances of Bain said he was a friendly but often frustrated businessman who had overseen several failed ventures but never had any public outbursts, leaving them to wonder how he could be charged with such crimes.

The masked gunman, wearing a bathrobe, was shown on television ranting and shouting "The English are waking up!" in French as police dragged him away after Tuesday's shooting.

He didn't put up any resistance, said Lieut. Guy Lapointe of the provincial police.

People who know Bain, whose lodge is 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of Montreal, recalled his complaints about bureaucracy but could think of no political grievances he held.

The mayor of La Conception, Maurice Plouffe, said he was "very surprised" to hear Bain was tied to the shooting and said the images of the suspect being dragged away by police "were not easy to watch."

Plouffe said Bain was sometimes frustrated in his dealings with the city after seeing a number of zoning requests were rebuffed, but he added, "I have never seen him become aggressive; he was quite normal."

A man full of ideas and proposals, Bain, however, seemed unlucky in his business ventures.

"He had many projects, but not many of them materialized," Plouffe said.

A list of members of the Mont Tremblant Chamber of Commerce describes Richard Bain as the owner of Les Activités Rick, which promotes itself as a major fly-fishing destination.

The shooting victims worked at production company Productions du Grand Bambou Inc, a person answering the phone at the Montreal company confirmed. Friends of Blanchette, a lighting technician, packed a downtown Montreal street Wednesday night for a candlelight vigil outside the hall where he was killed.

It was still not clear if the gunman was trying to shoot Marois, whose party favors separation from Canada for the French-speaking province. Marois had just declared her firm conviction that Quebec needs to be a sovereign country when she was pulled off the stage.

"What's going on?" she asked her security detail. The crowd apparently was unaware of what had happened.

The separatist Parti Quebecois party's victory is unlikely to signal a new push for independence. Opinion polls show little appetite for a separatist referendum. Previous referendums on separatism were rejected by voters in 1980 and 1995.

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Gillies reported from Toronto.

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