The quotidian violence of incarcerating Indigenous people in the Canadian state

Indigenous incarceration in Canadian federal corrections has been steadily growing since the 1960s. Despite much scholarship and reports that have highlighted these trends and the reforms introduced thus far, little has shifted this penal trajectory. In this chapter, I collate the most recent research on federal Indigenous incarceration to highlight the ongoing and increasing violence of the prison in the lives of Indigenous people and how reform measures fail to address the violence of incarceration. This chapter offers insight into how Indigenous people are subjected to some of the most repressive carceral controls and why reform is not an option for decolonization.