Annual Report: Howard Sapers

Howard Sapers: While the racial makeup inside the corrections system is changing, prison hiring practices have not kept pace, correctional investigator Howard Sapers said as he released his offices latest annual report to Parliament, according to The Star. Recent inmate population growth is almost exclusively driven by an increasing number of aboriginal and visible minority groups behind bars, he said. Today, four in 10 of the federal inmate population is comprised of non-Caucasian offenders and OTTAWA Minorities make up a disproportionate percentage of the countrys prison population but the faces of the guards dont match the faces on the other side of the bars, Canadas prisons watchdog said Tuesday. Sapers points out that close to a quarter of all inmates are aboriginal even though they make up only 4 per cent of the general population. He made a similar report last March . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.