'Live and exist': Prison libraries are important for inmates, advocates say - Winnipeg
On Wednesday, Winnipeg's prison libraries committee was busy unboxing, sorting and packing hundreds of books donated by the community.
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On Wednesday, Winnipeg's prison libraries committee was busy unboxing, sorting and packing hundreds of books donated by the community.
Indigenous offenders were 30 percent more likely to be imprisoned than White offenders, says the report
—— 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, o...