Advocating for the Human Rights of Prisoners

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IV
3. INTRODUCTION FROM THE ISSUE EDITORS
4. Voices from the Inside, Voices from Beyond: Reflections on the (Prison) Pandemic 1
5. ARTICLES
6. Night Time 7
7. Experience in the Essex County Youthhouse Detention Center During the 1990’s 11
8. Fourteen to Forty: Creating Something Out of Nothing 13
9. Doin’ Time in the Late Twenty Teens 19
10. Making ‘Friends’ at the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre 24
11. Peer Support and Well-Being: Exploring the Impact of Peer-Led Induction on Male Prisoners 30
12. First Amendment Under Attack in Illinois Prisons: The Price of Dissent 61
13. Riots Expose Bleak Future for Corrections in Massachusetts and Nationwide 68
14. Restrictive Housing Unit: New Name, Same Flower 72
15. Miscarriage of Justice in the Commonwealth 75
16. A Bleeding and Broken System 77
17. Locked-up and in Limbo: Living Stateless in my Hometown Jail 79
18. On Counting 84
19. Fill in the Blanks 86
20. A Loss of Memory? 89
21. RESPONSE
22. Communities of Advocacy, Resources and Supports in the Wake of COVID-19 92
23. PRISONERS’ STRUGGLES
24. COVID-19 Care Kits: Mutual Aid for Prisoners in Saskatchewan and Alberta 97
25. Prairie Province Prisoner Support Fund 104
26. Advocating for the Human Rights of Prisoners 108
27. Out of Sight and Out of Mind: The Incarcerated 110
28. Coronavirus, droits humains et détention des personnes migrantes 115
29. How Our Advocacy Continues During a Pandemic 117
30. Demands Made Regarding Federal Prisons During the COVID-19 Pandemic 120
31. My Experience of COVID-19 in a (Fake) Minimum Security Institution 122
32. Life at Joyceville Minimum During COVID-19 124
33. COVID-19 Behind Bars 126
34. Raw Vs. The Law: Our Fight for Vegetables at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre 127
35. COVID-19 and Prisoners 130
36. Edmonton Max Reflections 131
37. Edmonton Max 134
38. BOOK REVIEWS
39. Prison Pedagogies Edited by Joe Lockard and Sherry Rankins-Robertson Syracuse: Syracuse University Press (2018) 272pp 137
40. Available Titles and Call for Book Reviews 141
41. UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUES – CALLS FOR PAPERS
42. 25 Years of Convict Criminology 144
43. Anti-colonial Carceral Abolition 147
44. Walls to Bridges 150
45. Homelessness and Incarceration 153
46. Prison Labour 155
47. COVER ART
48. “Flower Skull” (front cover) 158