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Committee advances bill to update American Indian cultural programming in corrections
Summary
The House Public Safety Committee voted to place House File 12‑65 on the general register after testimony from the bill author and Department of Corrections tribal staff that the statute needs language updates to improve culturally relevant programming for incarcerated Native Americans.
Representative Keeler's House File 12‑65, which seeks to update statutory language governing American Indian cultural programming within the Department of Corrections, was recommended for placement on the general register by the House Committee on Public Safety Finance and Policy.
The bill's author, Representative Keeler, told the committee that the intent is to replace dated terminology and to better support cultural representation in correctional programming. "Native Americans make up approximately 1% of Minnesota's population, yet they represent over 9% of the state's incarceration population, particularly [about] 25% of the female incarceration…
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