Full Description
This general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Justin Piché and Kevin Walby features articles by current and former prisoners documenting the latest trends in penal policy and practice in the United States. The issue also features an article to "The Dialogue on the Canadian Carceral State" that explores the punitiveness of Canada's immigration system, a "Response" paper on the struggle over the future of the decommissioned Prison for Women (P4W) as a site of memory, as well as "Prisoners' Struggles" contributions, and a book review. The cover art, featuring the pieces "Carceral Landscape" and "Close the Bastard Down!", was created by Peter Collins - a former Canadian prisoner serving a life sentence who died behind bars of cancer.
Published in English.
Contents
INTRODUCTION FROM THE ISSUE EDITORS
Voices from the Inside, Voices from Beyond:
Reflections on the (Prison) Pandemic
Kevin Walby and Justin Piché ..................................................................1
ARTICLES
Night Time
Lukas Carey..............................................................................................7
Experience in the Essex County Youthhouse Detention Center
During the 1990's
Omar Austin............................................................................................11
Fourteen to Forty:
Creating Something Out of Nothing
Jeremiah Bourgeois ................................................................................13
Doin' Time in the Late Twenty Teens
Gordon Melvin........................................................................................19
Making 'Friends' at the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre
Adam Dufresne .......................................................................................24
Peer Support and Well-Being:
Exploring the Impact of Peer-Led Induction on Male Prisoners
Ed Schreeche-Powell..............................................................................30
First Amendment Under Attack in Illinois Prisons:
The Price of Dissent
George Peter...........................................................................................61
Riots Expose Bleak Future for Corrections
in Massachusetts and Nationwide
Charles N. Diorio ...................................................................................68
Restrictive Housing Unit:
New Name, Same Flower
Sean J. White ..........................................................................................72
Miscarriage of Justice in the Commonwealth
Jermaine Pickett .....................................................................................75
A Bleeding and Broken System
Mark Zammit ..........................................................................................77
Locked-up and in Limbo:
Living Stateless in my Hometown Jail
Deepan Budlakoti ...................................................................................79
On Counting
W.E. Roberts ...........................................................................................84
Fill in the Blanks
W.E. Roberts ...........................................................................................86
A Loss of Memory?
W.E. Roberts ...........................................................................................89
RESPONSE
Communities of Advocacy, Resources
and Supports in the Wake of COVID-19
Vicki Chartrand ......................................................................................92
PRISONERS' STRUGGLES
COVID-19 Care Kits:
Mutual Aid for Prisoners in Saskatchewan and Alberta
Nancy Van Styvendale.............................................................................97
Prairie Province Prisoner Support Fund
Free Lands Free Peoples......................................................................104
Advocating for the Human Rights of Prisoners
Millhaven Lifers' Laison Group ..........................................................108
Out of Sight and Out of Mind:
The Incarcerated
Mothers Offering Mutual Support / MOMS .........................................110
Coronavirus, droits humains et détention des personnes migrantes
Collectif ensemble avec les personnes migrantes contre le racisme,
Rencontre Interculturelle des Familles de l'Estrie
et Solidarité sans frontières Sherbrooke...............................................115
How Our Advocacy Continues During a Pandemic
Jane Crosby - Books 2 Prisoners Ottawa ............................................117
Demands Made Regarding Federal Prisons
During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Termite Collective.................................................................................120
My Experience of COVID-19
in a (Fake) Minimum Security Institution
Hassan Al-Ghazzi .................................................................................122
Life at Joyceville Minimum During COVID-19
Kevin Belanger .....................................................................................124
COVID-19 Behind Bars
Steven Zehr ...........................................................................................126
Raw Vs. The Law: Our Fight for Vegetables
at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre
Erica Brazeau.......................................................................................127
COVID-19 and Prisoners
Anonymous from Saskatchewan Penitentiary.......................................130
Edmonton Max Reflections
Luqman Osman.....................................................................................131
Edmonton Max
Anonymous from Edmonton Institution ................................................134
BOOK REVIEWS
Prison Pedagogies
Edited by Joe Lockard and Sherry Rankins-Robertson
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press (2018) 272pp.
Reviewed by Lucas Ridgeway...............................................................137
Available Titles and
Call for Book Reviews:
Journal of Prisoners on Prisons...........................................................141
UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUES - CALLS FOR PAPERS
25 Years of Convict Criminology
Grant Tietjen, J. Renee Trombley and Alison Cox................................144
Anti-colonial Carceral Abolition
Thalia Anthony, Vicki Chartrand and
Tracey McIntosh Ngāi Tūhoe ...............................................................147
Walls to Bridges
Shoshana Pollack and Christine Mayor...............................................150
Homelessness and Incarceration
Erin Dej and Dale Spencer...................................................................153
Prison Labour
Jordan House and Kelly Struthers Montford........................................155
COVER ART
"Flower Skull" (front cover)
Jessica Kakeeway
2019 ......................................................................................................158