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It has been seven months since we learned of Correctional Service Canada’s jaw-dropping decision to transfer Terri-Lynne McClintic to a zero-security healing lodge for Indigenous women, just eight years into her minimum 25-year sentence for the first-degree murder of eight-year-old Tori Stafford.

Well, OK, not exactly “zero security.” It’s just that actually preventing escapes is not within security staff’s purview — as was helpfully illustrated by inmate Joely Lambourn, who walked away from the facility amidst the controversy.

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Remarkably, in the bewildering cavalcade of things that were wrong with her move — which was later reversed after Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale requested (cough, cough) CSC review the matter — the fact that McClintic is almost certainly not in any meaningful sense Indigenous could barely crack the top five.

Over the weekend, Isabelle Hachey of La Presse brought us another astonishing tale from Canada’s prison system. This time, inmates’ Indigenous identity is the crux of the issue. “Hundreds of Québécois criminals are declaring themselves Aboriginal as soon as they enter prison,” Hachey reported, which “gives them certain advantages, such as more frequent spousal visits and faster reassessment of their security classification” — i.e., faster access to the exit door. Other perks, at least in some institutions, seem to include single cells rather than double. For the record, a CSC spokesperson says “offender access to (outside) contact is offered equally” — but Quebec’s inmates seem to think otherwise.