Sure. As seen in my own work and other substantial bodies of work, the experience of incarceration has profoundly damaging effects. That can manifest itself in specific ways for indigenous people generally, and for indigenous women, the focus of my work, in ways that I sort of rushed through before.
There have been modes of colonial control over time, first with residential schools, then the child welfare system and now indigenous overincarceration in the criminal justice system broadly, and prisons specifically. The fracturing of indigenous families is a feature of each of those instalments and carries reverberating impacts on the lives of indigenous individuals, families, communities and—