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Court examines race and culture assessments in sentencing African Nova Scotians

Monday, August 23, 2021 @ 2:50 PM | By Terry Davidson

In what is a first, Nova Scotia’s Appeal Court has driven home the need for sentencing judges to use special reports detailing the history of poverty, discrimination, violence and overincarceration faced...