| A new bill creates mandatory minimums for drug crimes, despite evidence that this approach doesn't reduce crime or drug use but instead decreases safety & exposes more people to the risk of diseas

| The Vancouver Aboriginal Transformative Justice Society talks about their work and philosophy in providing community-based alternatives to the mainstream criminal justice system.

| <a href="http://www.womenandprison.org/index.html" target="_blank">A new website</a> brings together stories of incarcerated women, challenging mainstream notions of justice, crime and punishment.

| A new compilation of writing and art by women in prison shares the stories, creativity and struggles of women living behind bars in Canada.

| Risk assessment approaches being used to manage prisoners are framed as objective, but in reality these approaches ignore systemic issues such as colonization and further isolate marginalized girls.

| These little trackable chips are being used more and more, from warehouse inventory, to U.S. passports, to keeping track of animals and even children.

| Using police, prisons and punishment to deal with gangs is ineffective. A report by the Justice Policy Institute documents why.

| Marcel Gagnon, Aboriginal singer and songwriter, talks about the sweats he leads inside a Northern BC Jail and the role they play in the lives of those who participate.

| A look at role and reality of books behind bars. Focus on the work of Books 2 Prisoners Vancouver, a grassroots group who sends free reading material inside to prisoners.

| &quot;Joe Convict&quot;, a prisoner who has been in segregation for several months in an Ontario prison, talks of his struggle with the prison authorities and his fight for human rights behind bars.

| Former prisoner Alex Friedmann talks about his play One Fine Day in Inferior Court

| Group of BC Women Hope Access To Education Will Turn Lives Around

| A North Vancouver lawyer speaks out about the lack of transportation for low-income defendents in the Sea-to-Sky area

| A Montreal prisoner support group works with prisoners to design a workshop on sexual safety on the inside

| The BC government refuses to free refugees who arrived in mid-October

| Filmmaker Jeff Lazar talks about his documentary about conscientious objectors

| Animal rights activists are increasingly being targetted by the state as terrorists. A lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights is challenging the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.

| Tibetan buddhist nun Ann McNeil talks about meditation in prison prior to a film screening of "The Dhamma Brothers."

| Korean activist and researcher discusses the increasing crackdowns on migrant workers.

| A Vancouver mother talks about having her newborn baby taken away despite availability of mother and baby living units.

| Formerly incarcerated women in B.C.'s Interior find new start doing research.

| A Christian group is making steps to build Canada's first faith-based prison unit in Manitoba.

| Gail Davidson of Lawyers Against the War says its time Canada repatriated Omar Khadr -- the last Western citizen detained at Guantanamo Bay.

| A former prisoner reacts to BC Corrections' decision to cancel the mother and baby program at a jail for women.

| SFU Professor David MacAlister is trying to find out how and why people die in police custody

| A BC woman still searches for answers and accountability in the shooting death of her brother by police.

| Street-youth turned documentarian Andree Cazabon speaks about her latest film series about youth in care.

| Cindy Lou Griffith and Irit Shimrat discuss the movement for self-determination amongst psychiatry patients.

| B.C. lawyer Grace Pastine reports on the Military Police Complaints Commission hearings in Ottawa.

| A dairy farmer talks about her fight to save the prison farms and why she is willing to engage in civil disobedience to do so.

| UBC Professor Deena Rymhs talks about her upcoming book "Cell Block Country: Prison Literature in Canada." It looks at the contribution writings by prisoners have made to Canada's literary world.

| Dawn has learned first hand of the arbitrary nature and lack of due process inside the prison walls. She isn't afraid to speak out about the injustices her husband is facing behind bars.

| Penned In is full of poems and stories written mainly by prisoners in the Creative Writing Program at Matsqui and their friends on the outside.

| Behind the walls of a local prison women are singing, drumming, strumming and playing music. Hear their voices. And from a musician who has been working with them, jamming and recording their music.