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UPDATE June 13, 2018: In a split ruling today, the Supreme Court of Canada said Correctional Service of Canada tests may discriminate against Indigenous inmates, but that Métis inmate Jeffrey Ewert did not establish his personal Charter rights were infringed by how his assessment was carried out.
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An upcoming Supreme Court of Canada ruling could decide whether controversial tests that are used to predict criminals’ likelihood to reoffend violate the Charter rights of Indigenous people.
In 2017, Jeffrey Ewert, an Indigenous inmate, challenged the reliability of risk assessments. The tests assign a score to an inmate and can guide sentencing.
Ewert has been in the federal prison system for 30 years, serving a life sentence for second-degree murder…
