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Invited Talk (video):
Healing as Decolonial Resistance: The Challenges and Hope of Indigenous Cultural Supports Inside and Beyond Prisons
December 10th 2025
UBC Learning Circle
University of British Columbia
Description: This session will focus on the overrepresentation of Indigenous people within the carceral system and the impacts that has on individual and communal wellbeing. We will explore the health disparities for incarcerated Indigenous Peoples in Canada and highlight the importance of cultural programming for healing and creating support networks among incarcerated people. Dr. Tetrault will focus on Indigenous-led programming highlighting both the benefits and challenges, acknowledging the tension around healing in a colonial institution.
Invited Talk (video):
Métis Experiences with Re-entry from Prison: How Canada’s Justice System Creates Impossible Conditions
December 2024
Rupertsland Centre for Metis Research
Department of Native Studies
University of Alberta
Description: Invited public presentation with Sandra Bucerius and Phil Badawy as part of the Métis Talks series.
Invited Talk/Podcast (audio only):
Decarceration and health: Breaking down bars for systemic change – Part 2: Dr. Justin Tetrault (No. 32).
November 2024
National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health
Description: In this episode, we hear from Dr. Justin Tetrault, a Métis criminologist and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta. We learn about Dr. Tetrault’s research in prison environments and the importance of Indigenous programming in prisons; as well as the critical issues affecting health and well-being for Indigenous people in prison. We also learn about what is needed and being done to spark policy change and support Indigenous people’s self-determination over justice and healing.
Media Feature:
Voices Rarely Heard…
November 2023
Circle
University of Alberta Augustana
Sewell, A. M. (2023). Voices Rarely Heard…Circle [University of Alberta Augustana Alumni magazine]. This piece won the “Feature Design” award and was nominated for “Feature Writing: Long” by the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association.
Article:
Consider This: Who Decides How We Decolonize Prisons?
October 19 2023
The Quad
University of Alberta
Article/Blog:
Indigenized Prison Programs: A Human Right, but Not a Solution.
May 2023
John Howard Society Blog
John Howard Society
Tetrault, J.E.C. (2023). Indigenized Prison Programs: A Human Right, but Not a Solution. John Howard Society Blog, Post #217, May 2023. John Howard Society.
Media:
Canada Must Recognize Anti-Homeless Violence as Hate Crimes
June 15th 2022
The Conversation
Invited Talk (video):
Thinking Beyond Extremism: Understanding the "Freedom Convoy's” Broader Appeal
March 18th 2022
Centre for Criminological Research
University of Alberta
Description: This talk outlines Tetrault’s dissertation findings on Canada’s right-wing nationalist movement and explores their relationship to the “freedom convoy”. Justin discusses the popular tendency to fixate on extremism in right-wing movements, which sometimes overshadows the movement's broader appeal among average Canadians.