Avatar – June 1975 - June - 1975
- Name:Avatar – June 1975
- Date:June - 1975
- Institution: Collins Bay Institution
- Topics: Crime Causation-Correlation, Crime Victims, Death Penalty/Capital Punishment, Health-Physical, Human Rights, Judicial Process-Appeals, Mental Health, Miscellaneous, Parole-Conditional Release, Parole/Mandatory Release, Prisoner Struggles, Rehabilitative- Reformative Programs, Sentencing, Special Handling Units- Solitary Confinement-Segregation Units-Administrative Segregation, Violence and Abuse of Power,
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Release Description:
This issue of Avatar addresses the economic reasons behind people being in favour of capital punishment and also justice for rich versus poor. There is an article reprinted from the Toronto Star on the subject of isolation being unhealthy for prisoners, an article regarding the effect of religious and reform schools on children, and a discussion of murder charges. Also included is a piece about a hangman.
KEYWORDS: Training Schools Act, reform school, Children’s Aid, paedophilia, sexual abuse
Coded by: Kate Garrett