By Meral Jamal Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Content warning: This story includes details about the prison system and the overrepresentation and mistreatment of Indigenous inmates. Norman LaRue, a member of Tk?emlups te Secwepemc, is an intergenerational survivor of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS). His father, who passed away when Norman was 17, had endured life at KIRS. But in 2021, when his nation announced it had found evidence of 215 unmarked graves on the grounds of the institution, Norman was away from his family in prison at the Pacific Institution, as he has been serving a life sentence. To cope with the news, Norman said he painted a mural on a wall outside of his cell depicting a teddy bear with a heart on one side and a…
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