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38. We call upon the federal, provincial, territorial, and Aboriginal governments to commit to eliminating the overrepresentation of Aboriginal youth in custody over the next decade.
To reiterate stats from a previous post, Aboriginal youth account for nearly half of youth in Canadian correctional facilities, while accounting for only 8% of our country's youth population.
As of March 2018, no new federal programs have been created to mitigate this discrepancy.
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