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Prison Industrial Complex

An Open Letter to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne: Action speaks louder than words!

Ajamu Nangwaya | Posted 05.15.2013 | Canada Politics
Read More: Prison-Industrial Complex, Employment Equity, Premier Kathleen Wynne and an Anti-Racist Agenda, Racialization of Poverty and the Minimum Wage, Unionization and Racialized Canadians, Canada Politics News
Ajamu Nangwaya

Dear Premier Wynne: The Network for Pan-Afrikan Solidarity (NPAS) agrees with the assertion you made in your speech at the Liberal Caucus' Afrikan Li...

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Why Making Prisoners "Pay" Won't Work

Johannes Wheeldon, Ph.D | Posted 07.11.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Bill c10, Canada, Conservatives, Prison, Crime, Poverty, Vic Toews, Criminals, Prison Industrial Complex, Harper, Incarceration. Bill C-10, Toews, Canada Politics News
Johannes Wheeldon, Ph.D

Time for prisoners to start paying their own way, says the Minister for Public Safety, Vic Toews. This will invariably lead to the reduction of community corrections programs that have been shown to best promote successful rehabilitation and reintegration. What if instead of trying to break the cycle of poverty-to-prison-to-poverty, we actively embraced it?

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