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  1. All Politics is Local
    Election night in Peru's largest prison

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Daniel Alarcon explores the internal politics of Peru's largest prison.
  2. Barred from Prison
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
    An account of what occured inside the B.C. Penitentiary during a prison uprising in September 1976.
  3. Canadian Federation of University Women
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  4. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  5. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  6. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  7. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  8. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  9. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  10. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  11. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  12. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  13. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  14. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  15. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
  16. Culhane, Claire
    Connexipedia: Article from PrisonJustice.ca

    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian social justice activist. (1918-1996).
  17. A Duty of Honour
    Against Capital Punishment

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1918
    The existing penal system, which is permeated through and through with the brutal class spirit and barbarism of capitalism, must be extirpated root and branch.
  18. End the Prison-Industrial Complex, Now!
    A Moral and Political Crime

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    In both political and moral terms, ending this prison industrial complex system is an imperative. As in the 1950s and 1960s, we must organize, mobilize and go into the streets. The existing system is the problem, not the solution.
  19. Inside Halden, the most humane prison in the world
    Amelia Gentleman visits Halden, the high-security jail in Norway

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    A look into the flagship prison of Norway, where recidivism after two years is only 20%, and the focus is on rehabilitation rather than punishment.
  20. My Freedom, Your Freedom
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2012
    Knowing nothing but drugs and violence since childhood, Kuebra and Salema have spent their adult years in and out of a Berlin prison, their experiences calling into question the effectiveness of incarceration.
  21. Oh! How -- German is this Revolution!
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1918
    The existing penal system, breathing the spirit of brutal class-spirit and capitalist barbarism must be torn up by the roots. A fundamental system of prison-reform must be inaugurated immediately.
  22. One Woman Army
    The Life of Claire Culhane

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    A biography of Claire Culhane, member of the Canadian Communist Party, crusader for prison abolition, and peace activist opposed to the Vietnam war.
  23. Our Generation
    Volume 21 Number 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  24. The Police and Court System: Neoliberal America's Tax Collectors
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Last week Biloxi, Mississippi became the latest city to be sued by the ACLU for running a "modern-day debtors’ prison."
  25. Prison Abolition & Alternatives
    Nine Perspectives for Prison Abolitionists

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    A argument for the abolition of prisons and a discussion of alternatives.
  26. Prisons in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    Gosselin provides a political and historical view of the prison system and its inherent contradictions. He argues that the penal system is used by the State to maintain its authority. He remarks on corporations, the press and the parole board and the difference in their treatment and coverage of prisoners and prisons. He sees the penal system as a morally bankrupt bureaucracy which threatens future incarceration for many people that the economy cannot absorb.
  27. Quaker Prison Committee
    A series of reflections by Ruth Morris, director of Canadian Friends Service Committee

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    A look at two case histories vis. the bail system and pre-trial treatment of those charged.
  28. Submission to the Sub-Committee on the Penitentiary Systems In Canada Hearings
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    A list of recommendations on how to fix certain issues in the prison system.
  29. The World's Most Fashionable Prison
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2012
    Fashion designer Puey Quinones works with inmates in a Philipine prison to teach them how to sew, work with fabrics and see their ideas go from sketch to finished product.

Experts on Prison Reform in the Sources Directory

  1. Council of Europe


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