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
(Beyond) Life in Prison
Kevin Walby, Melissa Munn and Justin Piché ..........................................1
ARTICLES
The Million Dollar Man:
Refl ections on Life Sentences by a Canadian Lifer
Yves Réal Côté and Alana Abramson .......................................................7
The Rarity of Prisoner Complaints Arising
from Guard-Administered Violence:
A Tentative Explanation
Mark Stobbe ............................................................................................19
Solitary Confi nement by Another Name Remains Solitary
Charles Diorio ........................................................................................32
Swinging Doors: An Autoethnographic Look at the Challenges
Faced by Previously Incarcerated People in the USA and Australia
Lukas Carey, Adam Grant and Scott Tompkins ......................................38
Evolution of a Life Sentence
James Ruston ..........................................................................................64
What Are the Barriers to the Development
of Convict Criminology in Australia?
Lukas Carey, Andreas Aresti, and Sacha Darke .....................................77
RESPONSE
Imagining a World Beyond the Prison Pandemic
Justin Piché ............................................................................................97
PRISONERS' STRUGGLES
CSC's COVID-19 Response:
Inside Canada's First Federal Penitentiary Outbreak at Mission Medium
Dean Roberts ........................................................................................100
MSOP's COVID Response was a Disaster
Matthew Feeney ....................................................................................117
BOOK REVIEWS
Escape Artist: Memoir of a Visionary Artist on Death Row
by William A. Noguera
Toronto: Seven Stories Press (2018) 447pp.
Lucas Ridgeway ....................................................................................125
Available Titles and
Call for Book Reviews
Journal of Prisoners on Prisons ...........................................................130
UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUES - CALLS FOR PAPERS
Walls to Bridges
Shoshana Pollack and Christine Mayor ...............................................133
Prison Labour
Jordan House and Kelly Struthers Montford ........................................137
Homelessness and Incarceration
Erin Dej and Dale Spencer ...................................................................140
Emotions and Carceral Spaces
Jennifer Kilty, Rachel Fayter and Justin Piché ....................................143
COVER ART
"Cell in Cell (Green Dreams)" (front cover) and
"There Comes a Time" (back cover)
Steel Door Studios
2020 ......................................................................................................147
