PSA: Criminal Justice Speakers Series – Social justice advocacy in women’s prisons
Join us Tuesday, Oct 27 at 6 pm ADT for our second event in the Criminal Justice Speakers Series – Social Justice Advocacy in Women’s Prisons.
Senator Kim Pate
Statement: Senator Kim Pate observes Prisoners’ Justice Day, August 10, 2020
Senator Kim Pate: “This Prisoners’ Justice Day, and every day, let us honour those who have died, including as a result of COVID-19 and other illnesses and conditions that are preventable and treatable in our communities, and as a result of systemic silence, neglect, discrimination and violence.”
Weekend Video: Conviction (Trailer)
KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – Last night I finally got to see the stunning and heart wrenching NFB documentary Conviction. The documentary…
Book launch: Punished for aging: Vulnerability, rights, and access to justice in Canadian penitentiaries, by Professor Adelina Iftene
This looks great! Book launch of Professor Adelina Iftene’s first book, Punished for Aging: Vulnerability, Rights, and Access to Justice in Canadian Penitentiaries. The book tackles the challenges that older individuals in Canadian penitentiaries face and their struggles for justice while they’re living their “golden years” behind bars.
Joanne Bealy: Three great documentaries at FIN inspire hope and desire for change
Joanne Bealy on some of the many strong local documentaries in the lineup at the Atlantic International Film Festival this year. “What these films show us is that the people of Nova Scotia are visionaries, the provincial and municipal politicians … not so much.”
Inside Canada’s East Coast prisons (photos)
A few heartwrenching and rare photos taken during a recent fact-finding visit to East Coast prisons by members of the Senate Committee on Human Rights. Many more on the Senate of Canada website.
Senator Kim Pate on teen‘s solitary confinement and return to the Waterville Youth Facility
An interview with Senator Kim Pate’s about the predicament of the young Nova Scotia man kept in solitary confinement for a year and the reluctance of staff at the Waterville Youth Facility to have him returned.