@StillFemale
The description of Desousa’s crimes is horrific.
I also find it disturbing that indigenous women are usually lifers. Is that a racism problem at sentencing or a societal racism problem that has led to them committing more serious crimes than women usually do?
Both likely. Though it is difficult to parse as the question is politically charged enough that attempts to crunch the data are usually rather poor.
But indigenous women are at high risk in a lot of ways before prison ever enters the picture, and they tend to be the kinds of risks that lead to serious crime, serious intergenerational family breakdown and addiction being among the roots of that. A good deal of that comes out of the residential school system which disrupted family relationships significantly, though there is more to it than that.