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Stark Raven: Prison Justice

Stark Raven: Prison Justice

Stark Raven takes a critical look at incarceration and criminalization in Canada and around the world. Hear in-depth analysis of the criminal justice system that goes beyond the corporate media. Produced by the Stark Raven Media Collective in Vancouver, BC. More info, prison news & resources www.prisonjustice.ca.
Stark Raven: Prison Justice
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
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
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

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)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

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)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

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)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

Dr. Sherene Razack on 'Reflections on Torture at Abu Ghraib'

March 15, 2010
| Six years after the photographs hit the press, OISE professor and author, Dr. Sherene Razack speaks on “We didn't kill 'em, we didn't cut their heads off": Reflections on Torture at Abu Ghraib.

42:55 minutes (39.3 MB)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

Olympic Image? 1976 Montreal pre-Games crackdown on queers

March 2, 2010
| Gary Kinsman, co-author of the Canadian War on Queers, on the crackdown on queer folk and their resistance as part of the "clean up" leading up to the 1976 Montreal Olympic games.

26:43 minutes (24.47 MB)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

$1 billion? Cops, cameras and Olympic security

February 3, 2010
| Author and activist Chris Shaw on defending civil liberties in face of the Olympic security regime.

19:27 minutes (17.81 MB)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

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)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

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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