A new study in to how the Canadian Criminal Court system treats Indigenous revealed troubling, but predictable findings.
Conducted by Justice Canada, the study compared criminal outcomes for Indigenous people from 2006 to 2016.
It found that Indigenous people made up 25 percent of all accused in 2016, up 6 percent compared with 2006, despite making up just 5 percent of the population.
In comparison, the number of accused Caucasian individuals dropped from 63 percent in 2006, to 55 percent.
The study also found that, over the examined time period, Indigenous were 33 percent less likely to be acquitted, and 30 percent more likely to be imprisoned.
As of January of last year, Indigenous people made up 32 percent of the total population of Federal penitentiaries.
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