C.B. Diamond – May 1954 - May 1954
- Name:C.B. Diamond – May 1954
- Date:May 1954
- Institution: Collins Bay Institution
- Topics: Community In-Reach, Crime and Criminality, Crime Causation-Correlation, Educational or Vocational Training, Entertainment, International issues, Miscellaneous, Parole-Conditional Release, Post-Carceral Issues, Prisoner’s Families, Rehabilitative- Reformative Programs, Religion and Spirituality, Sentencing, Special Handling Units- Solitary Confinement-Segregation Units-Administrative Segregation, Sports, Views on Incarceration,
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Release Description:
This issue opens with an article pressing for parole in Canada and pointing to its possible benefits. There is a detailed article comparing Canada and Sweden’s penal systems, and another describing military reform with a call for the Canadian penal system to follow suit. Also of interest is a request for public speaking classes for prisoners, as well as an in-depth article on the Vocational Training Course in Brick Masonry at Collin’s Bay.
KEYWORDS: “New Deal”, youthful offenders, Borstal system, I.O.R.C., “after-care”
Coded by: Nicole Arbuckle