The Outside Circle’: Rethinking rehabilitation for Aboriginal offenders – CBC

May 26, 2015

Pete Carver is an aboriginal warrior of sorts. He grew up in urban poverty, in Edmonton, ended up in a gang. And, as with so many young aboriginal men and women in Canada today, his warring eventually landed him in prison.

Pete Carver is the main character in a new graphic novel called “The Outside Circle”, illustrated by Kelly Mellings.

Although his story is fiction, it reflects a widespread reality for First Nations men and women… one that the book’s author Patti LaBoucane-Benson knows very well.

For 20 years Patti LaBoucane-Benson has worked on programs to support incarcerated First Nations people.

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