Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In regard to community justice and corrections, one thing that we’ve been pushing for years from a community perspective is having more say in the judicial process, but more importantly, finding ways instead of incarcerating people in large facilities, to start looking at community-based justice programs and incarcerating people closer to their homes, either on-the-land programs or also working with community justice committees in regard to having community sentencing circles. I’d just like to know where is the community involvement when it comes to community justice, because it seems like we’ve strayed away from the old notion of on-the-land camps by way of offering inmates opportunities to serve out their sentence in wilderness camps and also looking at programs such as the program through the Tl’oondih Healing Society in regard to a transitional justice program for people to transition out of the justice system back into their communities. I’d just like to ask what are we doing in regard to those types of initiatives to include the communities in the justice system.
David Krutko on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on October 20th, 2010. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
October 19th, 2010
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