Full Description
This special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, titled "Dialogue on Canada's Federal Penitentiary System and the Need for Change", features dozens of contributions written by criminalized men and women currently incarcerated in Correctional Service Canada (CSC) institutions. The writings document the counterproductive changes to federal imprisonment made by the previous federal government. These incarcerated writers seek to contribute to the reflections of Justice Canada as it conducts a review of the penal system and to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights as it engages in a study about the treatment of prisoners in CSC penitentiaries. Individual prisoners and Inmate Committees from CSC institutions in the Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Prairie and Pacific regions who participated in this dialogue collectively express hope that the Government of Canada will move away from the punitive laws, policies, and practices. To this end, the issue includes several recommendations to be enacted in the short-term to improve the lives of those who are imprisoned and who work in federal penitentiaries while also benefitting Canadian society by contributing to public safety.
Contents
INTRODUCTION FROM THE CO-MANAGING EDITORS
Prisoners of Penal Intensification and Sunny Ways
Justin Piché and Kevin Walby
DIALOGUE ON CANADA'S FEDERAL PENITENTIARY
SYSTEM AND THE NEED FOR PENAL REFORM
DISPATCHES FROM FEDERALLY SENTENCED WOMEN
The Impact of the Conservative Punishment Agenda on Federally
Sentenced Women and Priorities for Social Change
Rachel Fayter and Sherry Payne
Établissement Joliette pour femmes
Comité des détenues
Grand Valley Institution for Women
Anonymous Prisoner 1
Josephine Pelletier
Fraser Valley Institution for Women
Anonymous Prisoners
Stephanie Deschene
Anonymous Prisoner 2
Anonymous Prisoner 3
Anonymous Prisoner 4
DISPATCHES FROM THE ATLANTIC REGION
Dorchester Institution
Daryl Haug
Michael Leblanc
Anonymous Prisoner 5
David W. Threinen
In the Community
Hyper A'Hern
DISPATCHES FROM THE QUEBEC REGION
Port Cartier Institution
T.B.
Anonymous Prisoner 6
Anonymous Prisoner 7
Établissement de Cowansville
Comité des détenus / Maxime Guillemette, Guy Tousignant,
Daniel Loyer, Mario Ethier et Ricky Hankey
DISPATCHES FROM THE ONTARIO REGION
Bath Institution
Josephy Joseph / Inmate Committee Chairman
Beaver Creek Institution (minimum)
Anonymous Prisoner 8
Anonymous Prisoner 9
Anonymous Prisoner 10
Anonymous Prisoner 11
Anonymous Prisoners
Salomonie Jaw
Anonymous Prisoner 12
Anonymous Prisoner 13
Anonymous Prisoner 14
A.C.C.L.
Dirk Young
DISPATCHES FROM THE PRAIRIE REGION
Stony Mountain Institution
William Allan Beaulieu
Saskatchewan Penitentiary
Anonymous Prisoner 15
Anonymous Prisoner 16
Riverbend Institution
1417
Drumheller Institution
Anonymous Prisoner 17
Anonymous Prisoner 18
Anonymous Prisoner 19
DISPATCHES FROM THE PACIFIC REGION
Mission Institution
Anonymous Prisoners
Trevor D. Bell
Anonymous Prisoner 20
Simon Chow / Inmate Welfare Committee Chairman
G.C.
J.D.
P.R.
Ronald Small
Mountain Institution
Joe Convict for the Inmate Welfare Committee
Joe Convict
R. Mark Simpson
Kent Institution
Anonymous Prisoners
RESPONSE
More Stormy Weather or Sunny Ways?
A Forecast for Change by Prisoners of the Canadian Carceral State
Jarrod Shook and Bridget McInnis
APPENDIX
Call for input and/or submissions
Justin Piché, Bridget McInnis and Jarrod Shook
PRISONERS' STRUGGLES
Prisoners' Legal Services on Segregation
Simon Cheung
Call for Artwork - 50th Anniversary /
Oeuvres d'art recherchées - 50e anniversaire
uOttawa Criminology / Criminologie
COVER ART
"Maple Leaf" (front cover)
Peter Collins
"If You Build It..." (back cover)
Peter Collins
