The Communicator – January 1975 - January 1975
- Name:The Communicator – January 1975
- Date:January 1975
- Institution: Springhill Institution
- Topics: Christmas in prison, Correctional Policies, Crime and Criminality, Crime Victims, Entertainment, Health-Physical, Human Rights, Mental Health, Miscellaneous, Penal Reforms, Prisoner Struggles, Rehabilitative- Reformative Programs, Sentencing, Special Handling Units- Solitary Confinement-Segregation Units-Administrative Segregation, Sports, Violence and Abuse of Power,
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Release Description:
This large issue contains a chapter from the working papers of The Law Reform Commission of Canada on restitution, a reprinted article from TIME about behaviour modification, and a report by the prisoners’ ombudsman Inger Hansen calling for the elimination of solitary confinement. Also included are pieces regarding what it is like in “the hole”, a judge’s opinion on the penal press, and the importance of writing poetry in prison.
KEYWORDS: “Restitution”, The Law Reform Commission of Canada, The Principles of Sentencing and Dispositions, “the hole”, behaviour modification, “behaviour mod”, “psychogenocide”, Rule 32
Coded by: Kate Garrett