Fort St. John Courthouse and gavel. VICTORIA, B.C – The British Columbia Prosecution Service announced changes to policies that specifically target the overrepresentation of Indigenous persons in the BC criminal justice system. Government commissions and reports, and judgments of the Supreme Court of Canada have, for decades, recognized that Indigenous persons experience discrimination and unacceptable overrepresentation at all levels of the criminal justice system. According to British Columbia Prosecution Service Communications Counsel Dan McLaughlin, “Close to 30 per cent of the inmate population is comprised of Indigenous persons, whereas the general Canadian population they represent in the order of 4 per cent.”