Beyond Gladue: How the Justice System Is Still Failing Indigenous Offenders – TheTyee.ca

In 1999, the Supreme Court ruled ‘particular attention’ must be paid in their sentencing. That’s still not happening.

In early 1997, Jamie Tanis Gladue pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing her boyfriend in Nanaimo. She was sentenced to three years in prison.

Her case led to a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that was supposed to change the way Indigenous offenders are sentenced.

But more than two decades later, Canada still lacks a consistent system to ensure this is happening.

In 1996, the Criminal Code was amended to add a requirement that judges consider “all available sanctions, other than imprisonment” for offenders.

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