NunatsiaqOnline 2014-08-15: NEWS: Drum-dancing behind barbed wire: Inuit in prison
16.8.14
NunatsiaqOnline 2014-08-15: NEWS: Drum-dancing behind barbed wire: Inuit in prison: “When we are together, we get to be Inuit for a while,” says Piita Irniq, who works for Corrections Canada as an elder visitor. “When I leave, they become prisoners again.”
From Tuesday to Friday every week, for the past six years, Irniq — a former Northwest Territories MLA, civil servant and Nunavut commissioner — logs roughly 2,000 km driving to more than a half dozen Ontario federal prisons to visit Inuit inmates.
The odometer on his 2006 Honda CRV is nearing the 500,000 mark.
He has Johnny Cash’s Folsom Prison Blues CD on the dash along with a number of Inuktitut recordings from Baker Lake and Igloolik.
The institutions he visits range from minimum to maximum security. The maximum-security prisons, such as Millhaven, are more strict.
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