Tag Archive: prison conditions

Ion scanners and family visits

July 7, 2022 | , , , , , , ,

Post #195 900 words; 4 minutes to read Audio summary by volunteer Averi Brailey Maintaining links with family is vitally important in any effort to rehabilitate prisoners.  Yet visiting someone in prison is a daunting experience.  Visitors to a federal...

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Life in prison as told by prisoners: Penalpress.com

June 13, 2022

Post #193 800 words; 4 minutes to read Audio summary by volunteer Averi Brailey. Prisons remain an unknown for most Canadians.  We have very little idea of what goes on in these institutions.  The series of posts on this blog...

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Correctional Investigator’s latest annual report

April 14, 2022

Post # 189 980 words; 4 minutes to read. Audio summary courtesy of volunteer Averi Brailey. The Correctional Investigator is responsible for dealing with complaints about Canada’s prisons.  His annual report is often very revealing about the state of these...

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Prison Experience. David Dorson – Meet the Lifers

March 2, 2022

Post #187 1200 words; 5 minutes to read This post is reprinted with permission from Lawyers’ Daily as one of a series on prisoner experience they are publishing. The original link is:  Prison, a view from inside: Meet the lifers...

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Op Ed – Health care in prisons

December 10, 2021 |

The following op-ed by John Howard articling fellow Leandra Keren appeared in the Toronto Star on Nov 30, 2021   When your jailor oversees your healthcare, neglect and torture inevitably ensue When an individual serves a federal prison sentence in...

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Prisoner experience 9 – Visits (part 2)

December 10, 2021

Post #182 980 words; 4 minutes to read This audio summary courtesy of volunteer Averi Brailey. This first part of this post of a prisoner’s experience with visits  was published on November 30.  That post also references earlier posts in...

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Prisoner experience 9 – Visits (part 1)

November 30, 2021

Post #181 970 words; 4 minutes to read This audio summary courtesy of volunteer Averi Brailey. This is the ninth in an ongoing series of posts sent to us by a former prisoner who wishes to remain anonymous.  Previous posts...

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Massive changes needed in prison system: Senate report

September 24, 2021

Post #177 740 words; 3 minute read 30 second audio summary courtesy of volunteer Averi Brailey. Canada’s prison system would be totally transformed if the recommendations in a recent Senate report  were adopted, though the report seems to have garnered...

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Special intervention units still not working

August 12, 2021

Murray Fallis Post # 175   750 words; 3 minutes to read    Murray Fallis is a lawyer with John Howard Canada.     This post has a 30 second audio summary courtesy of our volunteer, Averi Brailey Twenty-six per...

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