C.B. Diamond – May 1959 - May 1959
- Name:C.B. Diamond – May 1959
- Date:May 1959
- Institution: Collins Bay Institution
- Topics: Community In-Reach, Convict Code, Correctional Policies, Crime and Criminality, Crime Causation-Correlation, Educational or Vocational Training, Entertainment, Health-Physical, Mental Health, Parole-Conditional Release, Parole/Mandatory Release, Race & Ethnicity, Rehabilitative- Reformative Programs, Sports, Views on Incarceration,
- Release Description:
This issue discusses the need for personal interviews in Parole Board dealings with prisoners, urges an end to discrimination particularly based on skin colour and religious beliefs, and draws a correlation between poverty, poor parental relations, and delinquency in children leading to crime. There is a report of the Board of Commissioners visit to C.B. Penitentiary, as well as a story illustrating the importance of letters from home to the prisoners, and a long-term prisoner’s opinion on young prisoners. Also included is an Alcoholics Anonymous article on the choice to be sober, and information on C.B.’s Brickmasonry vocational training course.
KEYWORDS: reform, parole, discrimination, prejudice, correspondence, delinquency, alcoholism, music, “Job Wanted” ads, vocational training, Alcoholics Anonymous, Parole Board, sports, Mother’s Day
Coded by: Kate Garrett