Inuit 15 times more likely to be jailed in Quebec than the provincial average

Osman Ilgun was one of many 617 Inuit individuals admitted to a Quebec jail within the 12 months ending March 31, 2022. That quantity represents four.5 per cent of the 13,613 Inuit dwelling within the province -- a price 15 occasions greater than the typical incarceration price in Quebec, provincial knowledge exhibits. It is also a price virtually twice as excessive as that of some other Indigenous group within the province.