Alarming number of aboriginals in Canada's prisons: watchdog<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/alarming-number-aboriginals-canadas-prisons-watchdog-210638509.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/1sRxsmGzH1ktW39.vkCLlQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-03-07T210638Z_1_CBRE9261MNA00_RTROPTP_2_CANADA-US-ABORIGINALS-PRISON.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Canada's Correctional Investigator Sapers speaks during a news conference on the release of his report in Ottawa" align="left" title="Canada's Correctional Investigator Sapers speaks during a news conference on the release of his report in Ottawa" border="0" /></a>OTTAWA (Reuters) - The number of aboriginals in Canadian prisons is rising at an alarming rate, and the prison service is not taking care of indigenous inmates properly, an official watchdog said on Thursday. Howard Sapers, in charge of monitoring the Correctional Service of Canada, said in a special report that aboriginals made up 4 percent of Canada's population but 23 percent of inmates in federal jails. The aboriginal population of Canada's prisons has grown by 43 percent in the last five years alone. ...</p><br clear="all"/>
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