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Episode 151: Under pressure: pipelines, prisons, and places
Jan 27, 2014rabble radioNova Scotia's potential fracking game changer. We get the scoop on the Northern Gateway pipeline ruling, supporting trans and queer prisoners, and a movie review.
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The irrationality, ineffectiveness and costs of the Harper crime agenda
Mar 18, 2014Craig JonesChampions of harsher justice measures in the Harper government would have us believe that longer sentences are a win-win-win: for victims, for safe streets and for future victims.
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Commemorating one year since #MigrantStrike
Sep 17, 2014Aw@lAn interview with Tings from the End Immigration Detention Network to mark one year since the migrant strike actions by detained immigrants in Ontario and Quebec.
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Study affirms union statements: Overcrowding creates danger in Saskatchewan...
Oct 9, 2014Ella BedardA new study confirms what Saskatchewan's prison workers have been decrying for years: the dangerous overcrowding in Saskatchewan's prisons.
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Mandatory minimum sentences increase costs, fail to reduce crime
Oct 13, 2014RedeyeThe number of crimes in Canada that are subject to mandatory minimum sentencing is growing exponentially. Civil liberties lawyers argue that mandatory minimums are both ineffective...
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Male privilege to kill
May 11, 2015WINGSThree interviews explore how societies react to men who kill women and women who kill men.
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Book: 'The Poor Get Prison'
May 29, 2015RedeyeAs the economy of the U.S. continues to stagnate, the banks have escaped scot free and the poor are targeted. Karen Dolan is author of a new report about the criminalization of poverty.
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New reports slam Canada's immigration detention system
Jul 13, 2015Megan DevlinNew reports citing indefinite detention, unfair review processes and a mounting death toll among detainees in custody reveal the dark world of immigration detention in Canada.
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Porn is a privilege, not a right
Oct 28, 2015Meghan MurphyOnce again the issue of prisoners' right to pornography is up for debate; this time in Canada.
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Criminalization and harassment of LGBTQ prisoners in Kitchener's federal prison
Dec 12, 2015Aw@lA summary of the "Being Queer is Not Illegal" campaign at the Federal Jail in Kitchener, and wrongfully convicted GVI prisoner Nyki Kish reads one of her new blog posts.
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Indefinite detention, deaths of refugees spark hunger strike
May 7, 2016RedeyeAdvocates say that Canada's practice of detaining refugees indefinitely runs counter to both international law and the Charter of Rights of Freedoms. They're calling for a 90-day limit.
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Angel Cordero served 13 years for another man's crime. Here's his story.
Jul 13, 2016The Hum PodcastAngel Cordero spent 13 years in prison for a crime that another man confessed to. He talks to us about coming home, rebuilding his life, and his ongoing fight for justice.
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Adam Capay is a case study in the banality of evil [with updates]
Oct 26, 2016J. BaglowAdam Capay, a young Indigenous man, has been kept in solitary confinement for four years without trial. He has been driven to the brink of mental illness. The minister in charge...
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Poverty and segregation endemic in U.S. cities
Oct 31, 2016RedeyeBlack poverty rates are double those of whites. One in three Black men has a felony record. U.S. cities are deeply segregated. Police killings have their roots in the system, says...
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KK Watson on improv in Kauai
Dec 1, 2016Living On PurposeMeeting new friends through the improv healing workshop on Kauai evolves into an improv conversation with Keoni Watson.
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