Indigenous people make up about five per cent of the general population in Canada, but when you look at the population of prisoners inside federal penitentiaries, more than a quarter of the men are Indigenous. And for women, it's more than a third. For much of his life, Jeffrey Ewert has been part of those statistics. He's a Metis man serving a life sentence for second degree murder and attempted murder, but the highest court in the land is set to deliver a decision regarding his case. The Supreme Court took up Ewert's case, not because of the crimes he committed 30 years ago, but because of so-called risk assessments that he and his lawyers say are unfair against Indigenous people in the corrections system. Ewert's lawyers argue that the tests are culturally biased. Original air date: June 12, 2018.

From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection.