Investigates

They are polar opposites of Canada's correctional system. On one side, a supermax prison is criticized for extreme isolation, excessive confinement, and no services. On the other, an Indigenous healing lodge with cultural services and many empty beds.

Find out who ends up where in The Prison Within.

For years, APTN Investigates has been following the story of Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance. The Saulteaux sisters were convicted of the second-degree murder of Anthony Dolff in 1994.

Their cousin admitted to killing the farmer.

Still, the sisters were put in prison where they've been – for the most part – for nearly 30 years.

John Derek Mills is a Cree man from Waterhen First Nation. He's a '60s Scoop survivor with a long juvenile record.

A life of crime culminated in a botched armed robbery in 1996. Originally sentenced to seven years, Mills is still behind bars nearly three decades later. He feels he has fallen through every crack in the justice system.

Although solitary confinement was abolished in 2019, it continues to operate under different names.

Joey Toutsaint estimates he has spent more than 2180 days in isolation. And he says every day has been a battle to overcome his thoughts of suicide.

APTN Investigates is taking viewers inside corrections facilities to see what's really behind the overrepresentation of Indigenous Peoples in Canada's justice system.

See the four-part series here: aptnnews.ca/insidecorrections

There's a silent epidemic of sexual abuse in First Nation communities across Treaty 3 territory in northwestern Ontario.

APTN speaks to survivors who say the only way to stop it is by talking about it.

It was meant to be the largest settlement agreement in history. Forty billion dollars for Indigenous children who have suffered in Canada's child welfare and health care systems.

Noah, now 21 years old, is among the leaders in this fight for dignity, compensation and the well-being of future generations.

Marilyn James has fought for recognition for her people for three decades, facing opposition every step of the way.

The feds consider her people extinct. BC courts ruled she has no standing. And now her cousins south of the border have a supreme court victory granting hunting rights. Members have frozen her out. Denouncing her claims as false.

Her story is one of genocide, identity and baskets.

Violence on the streets of Winnipeg is at an all-time high with random attacks and murders.

APTN Investigates goes right to the root of the problem through the lives of former gang members and finds a message of hope that things can change.

Nuxalk people want to protect their pristine ecosystem and stop mining exploration.

To do so they're employing a unique tactic - placing totem poles in the mountains as a warning to outsiders.

APTN journalist Brittany Guyot identifies alleged Catholic Church abusers who worked at various residential schools and in Indigenous communities.

She speaks with survivors and a priest who left the country after charges were brought forward.