Oh, Canada

[jon-nyc]

Skin-color based sentencing?

https://www.thefp.com/p/justice-is-no-longer-blind-in-canada

[taiwan_girl]

From the article:

"He’s now a sales representative at a debt-collection company."

So basically, he does that same thing that he did before, but it is kind of legal now!! 555

[Mik]

FFS

[Renauda]

@jon-nyc

For the most part the article is correct. Prisons here are full of aboriginals, blacks and browns. Aboriginals in particular.

I personally don’t like the policy, but it has been around in various forms for twenty or more years. The Conservatives could have done away with the policy during the eight years under Harper. As with most everything else during those years, the Conservatives paid plenty of lip service to judicial reform and tightening up sentencing but did nothing.

If the present Conservative caucus were to form the next government, I don’t anticipate any meaningful change from the current racial centric policy favouring Aboriginals in particular.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Oh, Canada:

Skin-color based sentencing?

https://www.thefp.com/p/justice-is-no-longer-blind-in-canada

We're headed in the same direction.

[Doctor Phibes]

Let the blathering and nitpicking begin.

[Mik]

@Doctor-Phibes slow morning, eh?

[Doctor Phibes]

@Mik said in Oh, Canada:

@Doctor-Phibes slow morning, eh?

Not quite slow enough. I got bored and gave up.

Can somebody even less useful to the economy pick up where I left off?

[Renauda]

@Jolly said in Oh, Canada:

@jon-nyc said in Oh, Canada:

Skin-color based sentencing?

https://www.thefp.com/p/justice-is-no-longer-blind-in-canada

We're headed in the same direction.

Whew, I am glad to hear that this thread is not about Canada after all. Was not at all sure at first.

[Copper]

In February 2020, after six months in prison, he was allowed to go free with court-appointed supervision. If he’d been white, he would have been looking at eight years behind bars.

Black people are so lucky.

[Renauda]

@Copper

Not so much luck as protection from harm or worse in prison. Black people don’t fare that well amongst the predominantly aboriginal prison population here.