Re-offend Despite Craft Clubs

Federal prisoners allowed to serve time at Indigenous healing lodges have a higher recidivism rate than those held in regular cells, says a federal report. Healing lodges feature arts and crafts, skating and book clubs, said the Correctional Service: “Emphasis for hobby crafts would be on traditional Indigenous arts and crafts such as rattle making or beadwork.”

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