The Canadian Prison System: A “Broken” Institution
Post # 169 925 words; 4 minutes to read By Martina Arcuri, recent political science graduate After a year of consultation with prisoners and staff, journalist Justin Ling, in an article in Macleans, illustrated many of the problems in the...
Read MorePrison Design may Contribute to Recidivism
Post #168 720 words; 4 minutes to read By Christie-Anna Jagdeo, post graduate para-legal student The physical design of prison is often overlooked but could play a significant part in the wellbeing of prisoners, specifically concerning recidivism. Some other...
Read MorePrisons around the world
Post #167 650 words; 3 minutes to read Dr Baz Dreisinger is a professor of writing at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. In this work she has been very involved in programs that teach...
Read MoreHolding fewer people on remand does not harm public safety
Post #166 675 words; 3 minutes to read As readers of this blog know, the bulk of people in provincial jails in Canada – more than 60%, or about 15,000 people on any given day – are held despite not...
Read MoreReproductive (In)Justice for Women in Canadian Federal Prisons
Post #165. This post is 930 words, 5 minutes to read. By Victoria Carmichael, JD Candidate at Queen’s Law. Approximately 676 women are incarcerated in federal prisons on an average day (Public Safety Canada, 2019). Yet, there is little...
Read MorePrisoner story part 7 – Getting a security rating
Post #164 960 words; 4 minutes to read This is the seventh in an ongoing series of posts sent to us by a former prisoner who wishes to remain anonymous. Previous posts in this series are here (#1) here (#2) ...
Read More‘A brutal murder’ – Why adjectives matter in describing crime
Post #162 750 words; about 3 minutes to read If you watch, listen to or read media coverage of crime, try paying attention to the use of adjectives. You will find that they are common in crime reporting, but not...
Read MoreSentencing should take account of the experience of prison – but mostly doesn’t
Post #161 This post is about 1060 words; 5 minutes to read Most discussion of criminal sentencing revolves around only one thing – the length of the sentence. A new paper by US law professor Eve Hanan argues (similar to...
Read MoreA model of misinformation – The CSC Annual Report
Post # 160 About 900 words; 3-4 minutes to read. Transparency is an often used word but seldom observed practice in government. Nowhere is this contradiction between theory and practice more evident than in the annual report of the Correctional...
Read MorePrisoners’ stories – I.M Grenada returns
Post #159 This post is about 1800 words and can be read in about 7 minutes. The grating debate by I. M. Grenada (pen name of a lifer prisoner in Canada). Previous work by this author published in 2017 and...
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