SUMMARY: This newsletter includes encouragement for prisoners to further their education, thoughts on prisons as the true manufacturers of crime, how transfers keep prisoners away from their families, maintaining a multicultural environment in prison, misinformation about the effectiveness of the death penalty, and a suggested parole reform aimed at saving money. Included are reprints from news outlets on gun control policies, marijuana possession, and a noted decrease prisoners being granted parole.
KEYWORDS: Bill C-61, Inmate Welfare Committee, Peer Support Group Project
Coded by Bethany Sanjenko
LIST OF CODES: Claire Culhane, Death penalty/capital punishment, Educational or vocational training, Entertainment, Health – physical, Parole – conditional release, Post-carceral issues, Prisoners’ Justice Day, Race and ethnicity, Religion and spirituality, Transfers between institutions, Views on incarceration, Violence and abuse of power
