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Stark Raven: Prison Justice

Prisoners and their families face bureaucratic nightmare behind bars

November 10, 2010
| 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.

19:54 minutes (18.22 MB)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

Bill S-10: More mandatory minimums for drugs

October 11, 2010
| Bill S-10 is Parliament's latest effort to introduce mandatory minimum sentences for various drug crimes. Researchers say they don’t work and will actually make things much worse.

16:40 minutes (15.27 MB)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

Saving the prison farms: It's time for civil disobedience

August 10, 2010
| 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.

22:04 minutes (20.21 MB)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

Mass hunger strike at Toronto jail inspired by Prison Justice Day

August 10, 2010
| Hundreds of prisoners are on hunger strike at Toronto East Detention Centre to protest inadequate conditions including healthcare, food and arbitrary lockdowns.

9:16 minutes (8.5 MB)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

Marking Prison Justice Day, on the inside and outside

August 10, 2010
| A lifer on his experiences on the inside and outside marking Prison Justice Day (an annual memorial and protest day) and how the prison system is making PJD harder for those on the inside.

21:31 minutes (19.71 MB)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

Understanding Fetal Alcohol and why many of those affected end up in jail

July 30, 2010
| Lawyer and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Advocate David Boulding shares his take on FASD and the criminal justice system.

28:16 minutes (25.89 MB)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

Cutbacks all round (except for the prison building budget...)

June 9, 2010
| With the tough on crime agenda in full swing, billions of dollars are being spent across the country on prison building. But the Tories are being eerily tight lipped about their specific plans.

24:33 minutes (22.49 MB)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

Keeping in touch across prison walls isn't easy

June 9, 2010
| For all their claims of the importance of family connections, one woman is nothing but barriers when trying to keep in touch with her brother in prison.

19:14 minutes (17.61 MB)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

Queerness, Prisons and Activism: Making the Links

April 27, 2009
| In Canada, people are no longer directly criminalized by the state for being queer or trans. But that doesn't mean there aren't a lot of connections between prisons, queerness and activism.

32:16 minutes (29.55 MB)
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