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Update of Canadian Women Prisoners
Loaded on May 15, 1991
by Paul Wright
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1991, page 7
Update Of Canadian Women Prisoners
Filed under:
Discrimination,
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
Prison Rebellion,
Prisoners-International.
Location:
Canada.
By Paul Wright
In our last issue of PLN (See "Oppression and Resistance at Canada's Prison for Women" page 7) we reported on events at the Prison for Women (P4W) in Kingston, Ontario, in which some 20 women prisoners had refused to lock up in ...
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- Editorial, by Ed Mead
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