What Are Aboriginals Over-Correctional System?

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A general background of why Aboriginals are over-represented in correctional systems today is because of the attempt to assimilate them back in 1831 through residential schools. In result of the residential school, Indigenous people lost their entire way of life as it was known to them. Throughout the time spent at the residential schools, Indigenous people suffered from beatings, sexual and verbal assault and in some cases they were murdered. The goal of these schools were to beat the Indian out of the children, and to assimilate them into the European norms and beliefs. However, this was a clear issue at the time many people seemed to turn their heads. Finally in 1996, the final residential school was shut down and the Indigenous people

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