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“No Reason to Treat Us Like Garbage”: Life and Death in Canadian prisons

February 10, 2018 By El Jones 3 Comments

1. The Weekenders Recently, news stories circulated about incarcerated women in Arizona being denied access to menstrual products.  When we hear stories about prison conditions in the United States, people in Canada often believe that these injustices do not happen in our prisons and jails. This is a mistake. I have been hearing for a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Charles Murray, death in custody, death of Matthew Hines, El Jones, internal investigation in prison, Justice Minister Denis Landry, Karissa Donkin, Rebecca Lau, Sherene Razack, Southeast Regional Correctional Centre, weekend incarceration, women in prison

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