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Canadian Prisoner Recognized for Advocacy on Prisoner Health Issues

Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008

Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS

Canadian Prisoner Recognized for Advocacy on Prisoner Health Issues by Canadian Prisoner Recognized for Advocacy on Prisoner Health Issues The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal network and Human Rights Watch has recognized people and organizations that protect the rights and dignity of those living with or affected by HIV and AIDS. Peter …

Retired Canadian Football-Star-Turned-Prison-Official Faulted

Article • January 15, 2008 • from PLN January, 2008

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, DOC/BOP misconduct, Prisoners-International

Retired Canadian Football-Star-Turned-Prison-Official Faulted by Gary Hunter Ron Stewart endeared himself to Canadian citizens during his years as a star halfback for the Ottawa Rough Riders. He later entered into public service where be served for 26 years, including as a prison oversight official, until he retired in 2004. It …

$5,000 Awarded To Canadian Prisoner Exposed To Second Hand Smoke

Article • December 15, 2007

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Smoking

$5,000 Awarded To Canadian Prisoner Exposed To Second Hand Smoke by In 2005, a Toronto prisoner was awarded $5,000 by a Canadian federal judge who ruled Correctional Services of Canada (GSC) failed to provide Vlado Maljkovich with the legally mandated healthy environment while in the Fenbrook Correctional Institute in Gravenhurst. …

Management & Training Corp. Struggles to Maintain Market Share

Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007

Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Management and Training Corporation, Contractor Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Organizing, Prison Rebellion, Strip Searches, Arrestee Searches, Failure to Protect (General), Immigration, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Suicides, Assaults on Staff, Employee Litigation

Management & Training Corp. Struggles to Maintain Market Share by Gary Hunter For-profit private prison operator Management & Training Corporation (MTC) has recently lost lucrative contracts to run prisons in the United States and Canada. While the private prison industry is dominated by industry giants Corrections Corporation of America, Geo …

Prison Skin-Art Pared From Canadian Budget

Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007

Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, Contagious Disease -- Misc., Tattoos

Prison Skin-Art Pared From Canadian Budget by Gary Hunter An innovative plan to prevent the spread of communicable diseases in Canadian prisons has been axed by Canada?s Conservative government. In 2005, $350,000 in startup funds plus $600,000 for operating costs were allocated to implement a safe-tattoo program in six federal …

Canadian Crime Victim Settles Halfway House Suit for $215,000

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Civil Procedure, Settlements

Canadian Crime Victim Settles Halfway House Suit for $215,000 by On January 22, 2001, the Correctional Services of Canada agreed to pay an unidentified female rape victim $215,000 (Canadian) hours before her civil suit for damages was scheduled to begin. In 1998 the victim was attacked by James Armbruster, described …

Canadian Court Awards Female Prisoner $10,000 For Illegal Search

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches, Body Cavity Searches

Canadian Court Awards Female Prisoner $10,000 For Illegal Search by In the week of January 23, 2006, the Federal Court of Canada awarded $10,000 to a female prisoner who was subjected to an illegal body cavity search at the Grand Valley women's prison. Upon returning to Grand Valley after spending …

Canadian Prison Sanctioned Skin-Art Saving Society Health Problems

Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006

Filed under: HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, Tattoos, International, Prisoners-International

Canadian Prison Sanctioned Skin-Art Saving Society Health Problems by Gary Hunter Six Canadian prisons are paying prisoner tattoo-artists to ply their trade. The experimental government training program was initiated as an attempt to reduce the spread of infectious diseases. Legal tattooing ensures equipment will be sterile and sanitary. Connie Johannson, …

$80,000 Punitives Awarded against Sex Offending Canadian Guard

Article • October 15, 2005

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Damages, International, Prisoners-International

$80,000 Punitives Awarded against Sex Offending Canadian Guard by A former Canadian prison guard sexually assaulted countless prisoners. Eight of his victims were awarded $10,000 in punitive damages, each. Roderick David MacDougall was a British Columbia prison guard from 1976 to 1997. He worked as a classification officer during most …

Prison Needle Exchanges Around the World

Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005

Filed under: Reviews, Medical, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, Prisoners-International

Prison Needle Exchanges Around the World by Julie Falk Did you know the first prison needle exchange program was started in Switzerland in 1992? Would you guess that the five other countries maintaining needle exchange programs in their criminal justice systems are Germany, Spain, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and Belarus? In the …

Canadian Prisoner Dies After Drinking Drug-Laced Vomit, Others Charged

Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004

Filed under: Medication, Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Accidents, Drug Treatment/Rehab

Canadian Prisoner Dies After Drinking Drug-Laced Vomit, Others Charged by Michael Rigby Canadian Prisoner Dies After Drinking Drug-Laced Vomit, Others Charged by Michael Rigby Prisoners at the Pine Grove Correctional Centre in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (Canada) have been drinking each other's drug-laced vomit in order to get high. One woman …

100+ Canadian Prisoners Attempt to Escape From Private Superjail

Article • December 15, 2003

Filed under: Management and Training Corporation, Prison Rebellion, Protests, Escapes, International, Prisoners-International

100+ Canadian Prisoners Attempt to Escape From Private Superjail by According to the Toronto Star, on September 20, 2002, more than a hundred prisoners at the privately-run Superjail in Penetanguishene, Ontario, attempted to escape using a battering ram. According to Ontario Provincial Police, the prisoners, who were armed with homemade …

$728,000 Awarded to Canadian Prisoner Beaten By Fellow Prisoner Leaving Him Legally Blind

Article • December 15, 2003

Filed under: Medical, Injury -- Misc., Vision, Failure to Protect (General)

$728,000 Awarded to Canadian Prisoner Beaten By Fellow Prisoner Leaving Him Legally Blind by $728,000 Awarded to Canadian Prisoner Beaten By Fellow Prisoner Leaving Him Legally Blind Former Alberta, Canada, prisoner Jeremiah McLellan was sentenced as an adult at age 16 for a 1995 robbery that resulted in two deaths. …

100+ Canadian Prisoners Attempt to Escape from Private Superjail; Racial Profiling Alleged

Article • November 15, 2003 • from PLN November, 2003

Filed under: Private Prisons, Management and Training Corporation, Racial Discrimination, Escapes, Prisoners-International

100+ Canadian Prisoners Attempt to Escape from Private Superjail; Racial Profiling Alleged by According to the Toronto Star, on September 20, 2002, more than a hundred prisoners at the privately-run Superjail in Penetanguishene, Ontario, used a battering ram to attempt an escape. According to the Ontario Provincial Police, the prisoners, …

Canadian Supreme Court Grants Prisoners Right to Vote

Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003

Filed under: Organizing, Voting, Prisoners-International

Canadian Supreme Court Grants Prisoners Right to Vote by Lonnie Burton On November 3, 2002, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down a law that barred prisoners serving sentences of two years or more from voting in federal elections. In a sharply divided 5-4 decision, the Canadian high court held …

2003 Political Prisoner Calendar Available

Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002

Filed under: Political Prisoners, Commentary/Reviews, Reviews

2003 Political Prisoner Calendar Available by As 2002 ends, the need for a calendar for the coming year becomes more apparent. Activists in Canada have published the Free Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War 2003 Calendar. The eye catching and well designed calendar is filled with slick graphics and plenty …

Advocacy Groups Challenge Arizona Internet Communications Ban

Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002

Filed under: Organizing, Victims, Computers, Death Row, Mail Regulations

Advocacy Groups Challenge Arizona Internet Communications Ban by On July 18, 2002, the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty(CCADP), Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty(CUADP) and Stop Prisoner Rape(SPR), filed a federal law suit against Terry L. Stewart Director of the Arizona Department Of Corrections(ADOC) pursuant to 42 …

Prisoner's Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs in The United States and Canada , 2 nd Ed.

Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002

Filed under: Reviews, Prisoner Privileges, Education

Prisoner's Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs in The United States and Canada , 2 nd Ed. by Hans Sherrer by Jon Marc Taylor, Biddle Publishing Co., 2002, pb. 341 pages Review by Hans Sherrer All across the country DOC educational programs available to prisoners are being reduced or eliminated. That …

Prisoners' Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs in the U.S. and Canada: High School, Vocational, Paralegal and College Courses

Article • February 15, 2000 • from PLN February, 2000

Filed under: Reviews, Prisoner Privileges, Education

Prisoners' Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs in the U.S. and Canada: High School, Vocational, Paralegal and College Courses by Paul Wright by Jon Marc Taylor, Audenreed Press, 243 Pages Reviewed by Paul Wright. The steady demise of educational programs in prison means that prisoners seeking an education can no longer …

Attention Foreign Nationals

Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997

Filed under: International, Prisoners-International, Immigration

Attention Foreign Nationals by A.I.C.A.P. Greetings from Alliance of Incarcerated Canadians in American Prisons (AICAP). Our purpose is to have all foreign citizens [not just Canadians] to serve their sentences in their home countries. In September, 1996, Congress enacted new amendments under the Immigration Reform Act, which allows for transfer …