Legal Education.

The SPP also provides legal education and training about systemic racism to justice system participants.

Resources

To begin understanding and unpacking anti-Black racism in the criminal justice system and wider society, we recommend the following introductory resources as a starting point:

• Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr., Prosecution (Marshall Inquiry)

• Report of the Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System

• Annual Report of the Office of the Correctional Investigator (2012-2013; 2016-2017)

• United Nations General Assembly’s Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on Its Mission to Canada

The Working Group is particularly concerned about the overrepresentation of African Canadians in the criminal justice system, which may be attributed to racial bias at all levels of the system, from racial profiling to the exercise of prosecutorial discretion, the imposition of pretrial incarceration and disparities in sentencing.

— United Nations General Assembly, Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on Its Mission to Canada