Diversions can happen at many different levels. We have front-line diversions that are actually being conducted by the RCMP. As I’ve indicated previously, our numbers here in the Territories have dropped significantly since 2003, but in the last year and a half or two years we’ve seen a sharp spike, which I think what everybody wants to see is more front-end work done on that end. We’re also doing diversions with our community justice committees depending on different levels of crime where youth, as an example, are engaging with the community justice committees to find alternatives to sentencing which are also rehabilitative. So there’s a large range of diversions, including if we move forward with alternative courts. It’s another form of diversion. We’ve done a lot of work around diversions, exploring options and opportunities, we looked at what other jurisdictions are doing, and we’re trying to find ways to help people rehabilitate and stay out of the system.
Glen Abernethy on Question 206-17(4): Aboriginal Prison Populations
In the Legislative Assembly on March 7th, 2013. See this statement in context.
Question 206-17(4): Aboriginal Prison Populations
Oral Questions
March 6th, 2013
Great Slave
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