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- Addiction and Control
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Prisons are very profitable. There are private prisons nowadays. The people that own them have, as their mission, first and foremost, the making of money. They need as many people as possible in prison to maximize their profits. They also need to spend as little as possible on the inmates and staff. Thus, America has over 2.3 million people incarcerated; more than any other country.
- Alternatives
Resource Type: Article Published: 1977 A poster, brochure, and information on jail chaplaincies and the corrections system.
- Barred from Prison
Resource Type: Article Published: 1979 An account of what occured inside the B.C. Penitentiary during a prison uprising in September 1976.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Pilot Copy, February 1976 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1976 The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1984
- Converse
Resource Type: Article Published: 1976 The role of church people in the correctional system.
- Crime and Punishment in America
Why the Solutions to America's Most Stubborn Social Crisis Have Not Worked... and What Will Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 Currie explores why being 'tough on crime' will only serve to exacerbate the problem.
- Criminal Justiice
Resource Type: Book Published: 1978
- The Don: The Story of Toronto's Infamous Jail
Resource Type: Book Published: 2022 An in-depth exploration of the Don Jail from its inception through jailbreaks and overcrowding to its eventual shuttering and rebirth.
- Eye for an Eye
Resource Type: Book Published: 1970 Four inmates talk about the American penal system over 50 years of rehabilitation and the corruption inherent of the prison system.
- Going up the River
Travels in a Prison Nation Resource Type: Book Published: 2001 On the prisons in America, their unprofitable nature, and their ineffectiveness. Hallinan also explores the workings of mostly-white towns that host prisons of predominately black inmates.
- How Private Prisons Game the Immigration System
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 With huge profits at stake, CCA and the Geo Group are pushing discreetly for enforcement-heavy immigration reform.
- In Conflict with the Law
Women and the Canadian Justice System Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 Critique of women and the Canadian justice system. Written from a feminist perspective, the collection is organized into three thematic sextions: Federal Imprisonment of Women -- Past, Present and Future; Images and Realities -- Profiles of Women Offenders; and Theoretical Considerations about Women in Conflict with the Law."
- Inmate's Rights
A Handbook of prisoners: Rights and Obligations in Newfoundland and Labrador Resource Type: Article Published: 1984
- Inside Halden, the most humane prison in the world
Amelia Gentleman visits Halden, the high-security jail in Norway Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 A look into the flagship prison of Norway, where recidivism after two years is only 20%, and the focus is on rehabilitation rather than punishment.
- International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Make the Don a Museum of Horrors
Resource Type: Article Published: 1977 A museum depicting what prison is really like might motivate us to demand radical changes to the way we deal with offenders.
- Mass Incarceration for Profit
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 In the face of growing public criticism and improved technologies, companies like Securus search for new ways to remain competitive while marketing themselves as providers of a quality service that keeps the public safe. Yet with the involvement of global financial houses in the prison industrial complex, the pressure mounts to produce value for shareholders. Ultimately, this systematically incentivizes mass incarceration. While we often hear about the activities of private prison providers like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group, corporate interests are immersed in every aspect of criminal justice.
- Maximum, Minimum, Medium
A Journey Through Canadian Prisons Resource Type: Book Published: 1995 Serving a nine-year sentence, Melnitzer documented his experience in three different prisons, along with his own introspections.
- A Microcosm of the Nation - Control Unit Prisons
Out of Control Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 A review of 'Out of Control: A Fifteen Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons' by Nancy Kurshan.
- One Thousand Years of Solitude
Life in the SHU Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Indefinite solitary confinement: a large-scale experiment in sensory deprivation and social isolation.
- Prison Abolition & Alternatives
Nine Perspectives for Prison Abolitionists Resource Type: Article Published: 1976 A argument for the abolition of prisons and a discussion of alternatives.
- Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Resource Type: Book Published: 1981 The story of Timmerman's 30 months as a political prisoner under the Argentine dictatorship in the 1970s.
- Prisoners' Rights Group
Resource Type: Article Published: 1978
- Prisons in Canada
Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 Gosselin provides a political and historical view of the prison system and its inherent contradictions. He argues that the penal system is used by the State to maintain its authority. He remarks on corporations, the press and the parole board and the difference in their treatment and coverage of prisoners and prisons. He sees the penal system as a morally bankrupt bureaucracy which threatens future incarceration for many people that the economy cannot absorb.
- St. Leonard's Society of Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Submission to the Sub-Committee on the Penitentiary Systems In Canada Hearings
Resource Type: Article Published: 1977 A list of recommendations on how to fix certain issues in the prison system.
- The World's Most Fashionable Prison
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2012 Fashion designer Puey Quinones works with inmates in a Philipine prison to teach them how to sew, work with fabrics and see their ideas go from sketch to finished product.
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