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Npr intergenerational trauma4/11/2024 PRANTEAU: I was moving around, so everywhere I went it was like - it was just busloads of sisters. While in prison, Pranteau, whose background is Cree and Anishinaabe, noticed the number of other indigenous women held with her. She was 19 years old when she helped rob a Winnipeg grocery store alongside a man who shot and killed a young employee. Pranteau is on parole after serving 19 years of a life sentence. JACOBS: This is part of her work with the Elizabeth Fry Society, which advocates for women in the justice system. It's - I find that it helps when they know that I'm also a lifer. SHERI PRANTEAU: They're in a desperate situation or having a human rights violation, and they don't know what to do. Now she's out of prison, in an apartment in Montreal, and she's answering the calls from other women on that hotline. Emma Jacobs reports.ĮMMA JACOBS, BYLINE: When she was incarcerated, Sheri Pranteau used to call a hotline for women who needed help with things inside - everything from dealing with abuse to finding resources to maintain their mental health. But the problem has not been improving, and now there's a court case and proposed legislation aimed at trying to address it again. The country's highest court has even called it a crisis and tried to address discrimination in the legal system. For decades, indigenous women in Canada have been incarcerated in federal prisons at much higher rates than the rest of the population.
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