Stark Raven: Prison JusticeBehind 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.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticePenned In is full of poems and stories written mainly by prisoners in the Creative Writing Program at Matsqui and their friends on the outside.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeDawn 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.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeUBC 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.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeBill 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.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeA dairy farmer talks about her fight to save the prison farms and why she is willing to engage in civil disobedience to do so.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeHundreds of prisoners are on hunger strike at Toronto East Detention Centre to protest inadequate conditions including healthcare, food and arbitrary lockdowns.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeA 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.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeLawyer and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Advocate David Boulding shares his take on FASD and the criminal justice system.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeWith 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.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeFor 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.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeB.C. lawyer Grace Pastine reports on the Military Police Complaints Commission hearings in Ottawa.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeCindy Lou Griffith and Irit Shimrat discuss the movement for self-determination amongst psychiatry patients.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeStreet-youth turned documentarian Andree Cazabon speaks about her latest film series about youth in care.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeSix 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.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeGary 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.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeA BC woman still searches for answers and accountability in the shooting death of her brother by police.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeAuthor and activist Chris Shaw on defending civil liberties in face of the Olympic security regime.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeSFU Professor David MacAlister is trying to find out how and why people die in police custody
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeGail Davidson of Lawyers Against the War says its time Canada repatriated Omar Khadr -- the last Western citizen detained at Guantanamo Bay.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeA Christian group is making steps to build Canada's first faith-based prison unit in Manitoba.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeFormerly incarcerated women in B.C.'s Interior find new start doing research.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeA Vancouver mother talks about having her newborn baby taken away despite availability of mother and baby living units.
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Stark Raven: Prison JusticeKorean activist and researcher discusses the increasing crackdowns on migrant workers.
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