CAP empathizes with Indigenous inmates

By Julia Archelene Magsombol Local Journalism Initiative Reporter After attending many court cases, Kim Beaudin, national vice chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP), speaks out about Corrections Service Canada (CSC). Beaudin has been attending Myles Sanderson’s inquest, an Indigenous man who murdered 11 people in 2022. Read https://www.saskatchewan.ca/govern- ment/news-and-media/2024/january/26/inquest-in- to-the-death-of-myles-sanderson Beaudin realized many things while attending Sanderson’s inquest: these court case systems have different recommendations, a report written to propose or recommend the options available to solve a problem. Elder Geraldine Arcand, who has worked with CSC for the past decade, was involved with Sanderson in the initial intake process when he began serving a federal prison sentence in 2019. “The first day I met him, he was quiet, but he spoke. He was respectful and talked about…

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