For months, Clive Mensah’s family has watched with a knowing horror as the stories of George Floyd and so many others have made headlines. All the while Mensah’s story has remained untold — until now.
Author: Vicki Chartrand
500 Possibilities | CPEP
Ontario has announced 500 million dollars for new jail infrastructure. How could you and your community use this money differently? Tell us! #500possibilities
Source: 500 Possibilities | CPEP
Fighting for prison abolition across the Prairies: An interview with Free Lands Free Peoples
Canadian Dimension spoke with Karrie Auger, an amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton) organizer with Free Lands Free Peoples and its Prairie Province Prisoner Support Fund, an emergency fund that has raised over $23,000 to distribute to “recently released prisoners, those still inside, and the families of people still incarcerated in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.”
COVID-19 taking a toll in prisons, with high infection rates, CBC News analysis shows | CBC News
A preliminary analysis by CBC News suggests that, despite prevention measures such as releasing thousands of low-risk offenders, infection rates are still five times higher in provincial jails and up to nine times higher in federal facilities than in the general population.
Source: COVID-19 taking a toll in prisons, with high infection rates, CBC News analysis shows | CBC News
Canada’s largest Indigenous police force has never shot anyone dead – The Globe and Mail
Black Lives Matter in prison, too
A group of federally incarcerated Black prisoners have written the following statement. It was read to El Jones, and has been slightly edited for length and clarity. We have been watching the Black Lives Matters protests and the conversations about police violence. We have been taking part in our own conversations with prisoners of all […]
Who investigates complaints about the RCMP? In ‘99.9%’ of cases, it’s the RCMP | The Star
Source: “Do I believe we can have a police-free future in our lifetime? Absolutely”: Policing expert Robyn Maynard on how defunding would work in practice
“It’s not that we don’t need safety. But police have not brought us that safety, and we need to look elsewhere”
Opinion: Breaking the law: How the state weaponizes an unjust criminal justice system – The Globe and Mail
The criminal justice system has become a government tool to marginalize people. So the state cannot take a knee when it’s the only actor that’s able to make real change
Four officers, no weapons, no charges: A Yukon First Nation’s solution for keeping the peace – The Globe and Mail
In Whitehorse, colonialism and crime have damaged the people of Kwanlin Dun’s relationships with the RCMP and one another. Now, a pilot project is trying to do policing differently — and Indigenous people around the world are taking notice
