Osman Ilgun was arrested in September 2021 and soon transferred to a detention centre 1,500 kilometres away from his home in the Inuit community of Quaqtaq in Quebec's Nunavik region.
MONTREAL - Osman Ilgun was arrested in September 2021 and soon transferred to a detention centre 1,500 kilometres away from his home in the Inuit community of Quaqtaq in Quebec's Nunavik region.
Osman Ilgun was one of the 617 Inuit people admitted to a Quebec jail in the 12 months ending March 31, 2022. That number represents 4.5 per cent of the 13,613 Inuit living in the province a rate 15 times higher than the average incarceration rate in Quebec, provincial data shows. It s also a rate almost twice as high as that of any other Indigenous group in the province.
More than 600 Inuit were admitted to a Quebec jail between March 2021 and March 2022. Provincial data shows the rate of Inuit jailed in Quebec is 15 times higher than the average incarceration rate in the province.
MONTREAL Osman Ilgun was arrested in September 2021 and soon transferred to a detention centre 1,500 kilometres away from his home in the Inuit community of Quaqtaq in Quebec's Nunavik region. At the jail in Amos, Que.