"We don’t like to say it outright, but who you are – that is, your age, race and other privileges (or lack of them) – can have an impact on your experience of violence."
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Race?  Not very likely.  For the other "privileges",we don't need to say it outright, it's a well known fact and does not surprise anyone.  Nor should it.  Nor should we fret over this situation.  
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I agree with the headline, this is not what justice SHOULD look like.  Then again, Canadian citizens should not look like homeless drug addicts, yet sometimes they do.
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It's not an easy situation to navigate.  Keeping someone in custody to "help" them vs allowing a very dangerous criminal to go free.  By all accounts the custody was for a short time and the offender jailed.  The most galling aspect was to transport the victim in a van with the perpetrator.  That to me demonstrates a callousness that the original decision may not have intended.  A sad situation with an ultimately tragic end.