Coronavirus: Prison Transparency Project looks at Canada s prison conditions during pandemic ctvnews.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ctvnews.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Organizers behind a new investigation are calling for greater transparency of prison conditions, including reliance on lockdowns and lack of personal protective equipment within facilities in Canada, Argentina and Spain.
Authors: Vicki Chartrand, Associate Professor, Sociology, Bishop’s University; Dawn Moore, Professor, Criminology, Carleton University; Jose A. Brandariz, Associate Professor of Law and Criminology, Universidade da Coruna, and Maximo Sozzo, Professor, Sociology and Criminology, Universidad Nacional del Litoral
Novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky once famously said:
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
And yet most of us know very little about prisons. In fact, gaining entry or even insight into prisons as an outsider is quite rare. In Canada, only parliamentarians and judges cannot be denied access to federal prisons.
If the measure of civil society is based on how it treats its most vulnerable members, why are we not only keeping people locked up in prisons, but keeping the community locked out?
COVID-19 pandemic exposes how little we know about prison conditions globally theconversation.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theconversation.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.