News 1. Death in Prison Last year at this time, I wrote about the Bell Let’s Talk campaign, and how Bell has multi-million dollar contracts on federal prison phones that allow them to charge predatory rates to prisoners and their families. I pointed out in that article that we criminalize mental illness and use incarceration instead […]
The Port of Sydney grift continues: Morning File, Tuesday, December 13, 2016
News 1. Prison violence Michael Tutton reports for the Canadian Press: It’s 26 seconds of brutality — and lays bare the emerging reality of a growing number of beatings in Canada’s jails. Inmate Dwayne Wright, watching television with his feet up, is suddenly sucker-punched from behind by another inmate. A video of the attack shows […]