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Uprising At B.C. Prison

CBC | Posted 11.27.2012 | Canada British Columbia
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Inmates in a cell block at B.C.’s Kent Institution maximum security prison smashed the outside windows of their cells last week and as punishment we...

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Even Canada's Criminals Deserve Better, Vic Toews

Gerald McEachern | Posted 06.20.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Tough on Crime, Kingston Penitentiary Closure, Panopticon, Vic Toews, Wilkinson and Pickett, Canadian Prison Overcrowding, Prison Closures, Correctional Service of Canada, Conrad Black, Canada Politics News
Gerald McEachern

After reading two Canadian prisons are shutting down, I expected there would be some new, high-tech facility to replace them. But I was wrong. The prisoners are being merged. Those people we're tossing in our jails are our neighbours and fellow Canadians, not scum to be cleaned off the soles of our shoes.

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Tories' Super-Prisons 'Already Here', Critics Say

Postmedia | Posted 10.02.2011 | Canada
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The Correctional Service of Canada will build maximum-security cellblocks inside medium-security prisons in Ontario and Manitoba, a move some observer...

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