Years of life lost to incarceration: inequities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians
Background: Aboriginal representation in Canadian correctional institutions has increased rapidly over the past decade. We calculated “years of life lost to incarceration” for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians. Methods Incarceration data from provincial databases were used conjointly with demo...
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ftunivbritcolcir:oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/55247 2023-05-15T17:22:35+02:00 Years of life lost to incarceration: inequities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians Owusu-Bempah, Akwasi Kanters, Steve Druyts, Eric Toor, Kabirraaj Muldoon, Katherine A Farquhar, John W Mills, Edward J 2014-06-11 http://hdl.handle.net/2429/55247 https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-585 eng eng BioMed Central Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Owusu-Bempah et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. CC-BY Text Article 2014 ftunivbritcolcir https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-585 2019-10-15T18:18:23Z Background: Aboriginal representation in Canadian correctional institutions has increased rapidly over the past decade. We calculated “years of life lost to incarceration” for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians. Methods Incarceration data from provincial databases were used conjointly with demographic data to estimate rates of incarceration and years of life lost to provincial incarceration in (BC) and federal incarceration, by Aboriginal status. We used the Sullivan method to estimate the years of life lost to incarceration. Results Aboriginal males can expect to spend approximately 3.6 months in federal prison and within BC spend an average of 3.2 months in custody in the provincial penal system. Aboriginal Canadians on average spend more time in custody than their non-Aboriginal counterparts. The ratio of the Aboriginal incarceration rate to the non-Aboriginal incarceration rate ranged from a low of 4.28 in Newfoundland and Labrador to a high of 25.93 in Saskatchewan. Rates of incarceration at the provincial level were highest among Aboriginals in Manitoba with an estimated rate of 1377.6 individuals in prison per 100,000 population (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1311.8 – 1443.4). Conclusions The results indicate substantial differences in life years lost to incarceration for Aboriginal versus non-Aboriginal Canadians. In light of on-going prison expansion in Canada, future research and policy attention should be paid to the public health consequences of incarceration, particularly among Aboriginal Canadians. Population and Public Health (SPPH), School of Non UBC Medicine, Faculty of Reviewed Faculty Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland University of British Columbia: cIRcle - UBC's Information Repository Newfoundland Canada Sullivan ENVELOPE(-63.817,-63.817,-69.650,-69.650) Penal ENVELOPE(100.667,100.667,-66.033,-66.033) BMC Public Health 14 1 |
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Background: Aboriginal representation in Canadian correctional institutions has increased rapidly over the past decade. We calculated “years of life lost to incarceration” for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians. Methods Incarceration data from provincial databases were used conjointly with demographic data to estimate rates of incarceration and years of life lost to provincial incarceration in (BC) and federal incarceration, by Aboriginal status. We used the Sullivan method to estimate the years of life lost to incarceration. Results Aboriginal males can expect to spend approximately 3.6 months in federal prison and within BC spend an average of 3.2 months in custody in the provincial penal system. Aboriginal Canadians on average spend more time in custody than their non-Aboriginal counterparts. The ratio of the Aboriginal incarceration rate to the non-Aboriginal incarceration rate ranged from a low of 4.28 in Newfoundland and Labrador to a high of 25.93 in Saskatchewan. Rates of incarceration at the provincial level were highest among Aboriginals in Manitoba with an estimated rate of 1377.6 individuals in prison per 100,000 population (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1311.8 – 1443.4). Conclusions The results indicate substantial differences in life years lost to incarceration for Aboriginal versus non-Aboriginal Canadians. In light of on-going prison expansion in Canada, future research and policy attention should be paid to the public health consequences of incarceration, particularly among Aboriginal Canadians. Population and Public Health (SPPH), School of Non UBC Medicine, Faculty of Reviewed Faculty |
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Years of life lost to incarceration: inequities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians |
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