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Former Prisoners Research Women Leaving BC's Jails

November 1, 2008
| An update on the Women Into Healing health research project

10:28 minutes (11.98 MB)
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Killadelphia: A new play about the crime wave hitting Philadelphia

April 6, 2009
| <p>Interview with actor and playwright Sean Lewis.</p>

17:35 minutes (10.06 MB)
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Woman dies inside BC jail: Friends say it was preventable

April 14, 2009
| <p>Betty Krawczyk and Cat Wilson discuss the death of Jennifer Churchill - the first woman to die at Alouette Correctional Centre for Women.</p>

26:57 minutes (30.85 MB)
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Prison advisory board resigns to protest clamp down on free speech

April 13, 2009
| <p>The former chair of the Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre community advisory board speaks about the board's decision to resign to protest new guidelines gagging free speech.</p>

23:19 minutes (26.68 MB)
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Activists fight to close jail for immigrant families in U.S.

May 18, 2009
| Lauren Martin speaks about the campaign to close the T. Don Hutto detention centre for immigrant families located near Austin, Texas.

32:53 minutes (37.63 MB)
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Why prisoners re-offend

June 3, 2009
| Mo Korchinski talks about Post Incarceration Syndrome - one of the leading reasons newly released prisoners end up back in jail

6:42 minutes (7.67 MB)
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Unique prison art show

June 12, 2009
| Dennis Sobin talks about a new exhibit featuring pano art - an artform created by prisoners.

14:59 minutes (17.14 MB)
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New film documents Aboriginal approach to prisons

June 12, 2009
| Interview with Hugh Brody, director of The Meaning of Life

18:37 minutes (21.31 MB)
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Mapping Immigrant Detention

June 11, 2009
| Michael Flynn of the Global Detention Project finds out how many migrants are put in prison worldwide

24:19 minutes (27.84 MB)
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Prisoner Play about Legal Misconduct Performed at Kennedy Centre

September 17, 2009
| Former prisoner Alex Friedmann talks about his play One Fine Day in Inferior Court

18:22 minutes (21.03 MB)
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Education Bursary for Prisoners Launched

September 17, 2009
| Group of BC Women Hope Access To Education Will Turn Lives Around

12:44 minutes (14.57 MB)
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BC Court Leaves Defendents With No Way To Get Home

November 2, 2009
| A North Vancouver lawyer speaks out about the lack of transportation for low-income defendents in the Sea-to-Sky area

16:36 minutes (19 MB)
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Prisoners find accessing safe sex... isn't so safe

November 10, 2009
| A Montreal prisoner support group works with prisoners to design a workshop on sexual safety on the inside

27:10 minutes (31.09 MB)
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Sri Lankan Refugees Remain in Detention

November 10, 2009
| The BC government refuses to free refugees who arrived in mid-October

14:28 minutes (16.55 MB)
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South Korea jails young men who refuse military service

November 2, 2009
| Filmmaker Jeff Lazar talks about his documentary about conscientious objectors

14:50 minutes (16.99 MB)
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Animal rights activists fight U.S. terrorism law

November 10, 2009
| 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.

23:32 minutes (26.94 MB)
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Buddhist nun brings meditation inside prison

November 16, 2009
| Tibetan buddhist nun Ann McNeil talks about meditation in prison prior to a film screening of "The Dhamma Brothers."

16:06 minutes (18.44 MB)
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Migrant workers detained in South Korea

November 17, 2009
| Korean activist and researcher discusses the increasing crackdowns on migrant workers.

29:28 minutes (33.72 MB)
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Newborn baby removed from mom in prison: Now reunited

December 2, 2009
| A Vancouver mother talks about having her newborn baby taken away despite availability of mother and baby living units.

19:21 minutes (22.16 MB)
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Kamloops group is moving women beyond bars

January 8, 2010
| Formerly incarcerated women in B.C.'s Interior find new start doing research.

20:16 minutes (23.19 MB)
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Christian-based prison coming to Canada?

January 8, 2010
| A Christian group is making steps to build Canada's first faith-based prison unit in Manitoba.

18:50 minutes (21.57 MB)
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Omar Khadr stays in Guantanamo despite court ruling his Charter rights are violated

February 1, 2010
| Gail Davidson of Lawyers Against the War says its time Canada repatriated Omar Khadr -- the last Western citizen detained at Guantanamo Bay.

22:14 minutes (25.44 MB)
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Death Under Police Watch: Part 1

February 3, 2010
| SFU Professor David MacAlister is trying to find out how and why people die in police custody

18:42 minutes (21.4 MB)
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Death Under Police Watch: Part 2

February 4, 2010
| A BC woman still searches for answers and accountability in the shooting death of her brother by police.

14:14 minutes (16.29 MB)
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How much protection does Canada's child welfare system provide?

April 27, 2010
| Street-youth turned documentarian Andree Cazabon speaks about her latest film series about youth in care.

27:27 minutes (31.42 MB)
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Deconstructing Psychiatry: Filmmaker and activist explore psychiatry's impact on their lives

April 28, 2010
| Cindy Lou Griffith and Irit Shimrat discuss the movement for self-determination amongst psychiatry patients.

31:10 minutes (35.67 MB)
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Canada's role in torturing Afghan prisoners

April 28, 2010
| B.C. lawyer Grace Pastine reports on the Military Police Complaints Commission hearings in Ottawa.

18:29 minutes (21.15 MB)
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Prisoner writings as literature

October 18, 2010
| 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.

22:15 minutes (25.47 MB)