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.
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Aug 9, 2011  Women raise their voices beyond the bars: Women's music in prisonBehind 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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Mar 22, 2011 Penned In: A collection of literary creations from both sides of the fencePenned 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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Nov 10, 2010 Prisoners and their families face bureaucratic nightmare behind barsDawn 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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Oct 18, 2010 Prisoner writings as literatureUBC 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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Oct 11, 2010 Bill S-10: More mandatory minimums for drugsBill 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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Aug 10, 2010 Saving the prison farms: It's time for civil disobedienceA 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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Aug 10, 2010 Mass hunger strike at Toronto jail inspired by Prison Justice DayHundreds 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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Aug 10, 2010 Marking Prison Justice Day, on the inside and outsideA 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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Jul 30, 2010 Understanding Fetal Alcohol and why many of those affected end up in jailLawyer and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Advocate David Boulding shares his take on FASD and the criminal justice system. |
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Jun 9, 2010 Cutbacks all round (except for the prison building budget...)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. |
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Jun 9, 2010 Keeping in touch across prison walls isn't easyFor 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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Apr 28, 2010 Canada's role in torturing Afghan prisonersB.C. lawyer Grace Pastine reports on the Military Police Complaints Commission hearings in Ottawa. |
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Apr 28, 2010 Deconstructing Psychiatry: Filmmaker and activist explore psychiatry's impact on their livesCindy Lou Griffith and Irit Shimrat discuss the movement for self-determination amongst psychiatry patients. |
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Apr 27, 2010 How much protection does Canada's child welfare system provide?Street-youth turned documentarian Andree Cazabon speaks about her latest film series about youth in care. |
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Mar 15, 2010 Dr. Sherene Razack on 'Reflections on Torture at Abu Ghraib'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. |
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Mar 2, 2010 Olympic Image? 1976 Montreal pre-Games crackdown on queersGary 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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Feb 4, 2010 Death Under Police Watch: Part 2A BC woman still searches for answers and accountability in the shooting death of her brother by police. |
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Feb 3, 2010 $1 billion? Cops, cameras and Olympic securityAuthor and activist Chris Shaw on defending civil liberties in face of the Olympic security regime. |
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Feb 3, 2010 Death Under Police Watch: Part 1SFU Professor David MacAlister is trying to find out how and why people die in police custody |
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Feb 1, 2010 Omar Khadr stays in Guantanamo despite court ruling his Charter rights are violatedGail 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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Jan 8, 2010 Christian-based prison coming to Canada?A Christian group is making steps to build Canada's first faith-based prison unit in Manitoba. |
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Jan 8, 2010 Kamloops group is moving women beyond barsFormerly incarcerated women in B.C.'s Interior find new start doing research. |
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Dec 2, 2009 Newborn baby removed from mom in prison: Now reunitedA Vancouver mother talks about having her newborn baby taken away despite availability of mother and baby living units. |
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Nov 17, 2009 Migrant workers detained in South KoreaKorean activist and researcher discusses the increasing crackdowns on migrant workers. |