Death by A Thousand Cuts: Aging in Canadian Prisons

Originally published on September 2, 2021 in the Prison Abolition issue of Briarpatch Magazine Edited by Reakash WaltersFeature photo is called “Time” by Tim Fefoldi They say once you’re “woke” you can’t go back to sleep. This is quite literally how I feel as I sit on the corner of this thin plastic jailhouse mattress at 4:45 a.m., pouring […]
Justice for Racialized Prisoners

The following piece was originally published in March 2019 with the Broadbent Institute Authors: Christophe Lewis and Reakash Walters “It’s like carding, but inside the prison system.” -Phillip Atkins, incarcerated at Collins Bay federal penitentiary. This past week, the Senate Human Rights Committee released an interim report on Canada’s federal prison system. One issue raised at […]