This issue features poems, commentary and opinion editorials. It covers topics such as prison conditions, issues regarding classifications, maximum-security designations, and transfers to other institutions. The edition also includes commentary around mental health and violence within Canadian prisons, including a kitchen-staff stabbing at Collins Bay Penitentiary, and the degrading conditions within B.C.’s Penitentiary. Furthermore, the issue includes editorials critiquing the parole board’s decision-making, coverage of two prison movement activists, Gay Hoon and Betsy Wood, who were acquitted of attempted murder on March 1, 1979, and an open letter to the Commissioner of Millhaven Penitentiary calling for reforms in prison guard training, policy oversight, and the use of punishment in prisons.
KEYWORDS: Watchdog Advisory Committee, super-maximum security prison, Citizen’ Advisory Committee, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Gay Hoon, Betsy Wood, John Gillis
Coded by: Mikayla Teofilo
