The Messenger – August 1985 - August 1985
- Name:The Messenger – August 1985
- Date:August 1985
- Institution: Mission Medium Security Institution
- Topics: Community In-Reach, Correctional Policies, Crime Causation-Correlation, Crime Statistics, Death Penalty/Capital Punishment, Entertainment, Human Rights, International issues, Mental Health, Post-Carceral Issues, Prisoner’s Families, Rehabilitative- Reformative Programs, Relationships in Prisons, Religion and Spirituality, Sports, Views on Incarceration,
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Release Description:
This issue covers a variety of social-political topics and features a rare article published by the Royal Bank of Canada entitled Punishment and Crime that includes crime statistics and a report from the Canadian Forensic Psychiatric Seminar Violence and Society. Also of interest are articles about the American Hell’s Angels, unique prison marriages, Canada’s new divorce law and prisoner mental health.
KEYWORDS: Terry Fox Run, Victorian Humanists, lenient, restitution, public perception, crime statistics, strategies, accountability, capital punishment, suicide
Coded by: Kelly E. Marshall