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Canada’s prisons: despair, hopelessness, and institutional racism

May 5, 2018 By El Jones 3 Comments

On May 2, four members of the Senate Committee on Human Rights released a statement about the human rights of prisoners in the Atlantic region. The senators visited all the federal penitentiaries in the region. They also visited the East Coast Forensic Centre: Tona, a patient there, described the differences between her 10 years in […]

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How To Be Human

October 29, 2016 By El Jones 6 Comments

The first time I go into a prison, Ardath Whynacht invites me for a poetry workshop with the women in Nova Institution. Afterwards, driving back from Truro, she tells me that one of the woman whose poetry I really loved was convicted of a notorious crime. She doesn’t know if I realized it or not, wants […]

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