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S1 Episode 8: Indigenous incarceration rates
We discuss incarceration rates for Indigenous people in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and the underlying systemic oppression these countries need to address to create less discriminatory justice systems. Also, another pop culture reference goes over Teresa’s head, we realize Dickensian debtors prisons never went out of style, and we urge people not to pee on their phones.
Content note:
We mention some distressing news stories. This guide provides some suggestions for how to cope with traumatic news events.
In the news
An Aeroflot passenger plane caught fire after making an emergency landing in Moscow, killing 41 people.
The High Court of Australia is hearing two cases involving Aboriginal men who were born overseas and who are now facing deportation due to the “character test” provisions in the migrant act.
Two Reuters journalists were released from prison in Myanmar this week, after spending over 500 days in jail for reporting on the attempted genocide of the Rohingya people.
The state of Alabama in the US is set to pass a law that would jail doctors who perform abortions and this week the state of Georgia passed a law that will ban abortions if a fetal heartbeat can be detected (approximately the sixth week of pregnancy).
On May 7th there was a school shooting in a small school in Colorado, US in which one student was killed and a handful of others were wounded.
This week the UN’s intergovernmental science policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services released a summary of an upcoming report that found that almost one million species are at risk of extinction.
Sort of maybe kinda good news: the UK met its power needs for a week without using coal.
A recent Court of Arbitration for Sport decision upheld an International Association of Athletics Federation policy to exclude women with differences of sex development from participating in some events if their natural levels of testosterone are too high. Not only is the policy based on some dubious science, but also many feel it is targeting South African runner Caster Semenya. We discuss who is allowed to have “advantage” and who gets the qualifier “unfair” advantage.
Making Sense of Systems: Incarceration rates in Indigenous populations in New Zealand, Canada, and Australia
The World Prison Brief has data on incarceration rates across...
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By Cider & SensitivityWe discuss incarceration rates for Indigenous people in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and the underlying systemic oppression these countries need to address to create less discriminatory justice systems. Also, another pop culture reference goes over Teresa’s head, we realize Dickensian debtors prisons never went out of style, and we urge people not to pee on their phones.
Content note:
We mention some distressing news stories. This guide provides some suggestions for how to cope with traumatic news events.
In the news
An Aeroflot passenger plane caught fire after making an emergency landing in Moscow, killing 41 people.
The High Court of Australia is hearing two cases involving Aboriginal men who were born overseas and who are now facing deportation due to the “character test” provisions in the migrant act.
Two Reuters journalists were released from prison in Myanmar this week, after spending over 500 days in jail for reporting on the attempted genocide of the Rohingya people.
The state of Alabama in the US is set to pass a law that would jail doctors who perform abortions and this week the state of Georgia passed a law that will ban abortions if a fetal heartbeat can be detected (approximately the sixth week of pregnancy).
On May 7th there was a school shooting in a small school in Colorado, US in which one student was killed and a handful of others were wounded.
This week the UN’s intergovernmental science policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services released a summary of an upcoming report that found that almost one million species are at risk of extinction.
Sort of maybe kinda good news: the UK met its power needs for a week without using coal.
A recent Court of Arbitration for Sport decision upheld an International Association of Athletics Federation policy to exclude women with differences of sex development from participating in some events if their natural levels of testosterone are too high. Not only is the policy based on some dubious science, but also many feel it is targeting South African runner Caster Semenya. We discuss who is allowed to have “advantage” and who gets the qualifier “unfair” advantage.
Making Sense of Systems: Incarceration rates in Indigenous populations in New Zealand, Canada, and Australia
The World Prison Brief has data on incarceration rates across...