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This general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Justin Piché and Kevin Walby features articles by current and former prisoners documenting the latest trends in penal policy and practice in the United States. The issue also features an article to “The Dialogue on the Canadian Carceral State” that explores the punitiveness of Canada’s immigration system, a “Response” paper on the struggle over the future of the decommissioned Prison for Women (P4W) as a site of memory, as well as “Prisoners’ Struggles” contributions, and a book review. The cover art, featuring the pieces “Carceral Landscape” and “Close the Bastard Down!”, was created by Peter Collins – a former Canadian prisoner serving a life sentence who died behind bars of cancer.
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on Prisons Volume 29, Number 1 & 2, 2020
Journal of Prisoners
Journal of Prisoners
on Prisons
… allowing our experiences and analysis to be added to the forum that will constitute public opinion could help halt the disastrous trend toward building more fortresses of fear st which will become in the 21 century this generation’s monuments to failure.
Jo-Ann Mayhew (1988)
Volume 29 Number 1&2 2020
EDITORIAL STAFF:
Editors: Associate Editors: Issue Editors:
JOURNAL OF PRISONERS ON PRISONS
Justin Piché Kevin Walby Susan Nagelsen Charles Huckelbury Kevin Walby and Justin Piché
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Andreas Aresti Gillian Balfour Bree Carlton Vicki Chartrand Bell Gale Chevigny Elizabeth Comack Sacha Darke Howard Davidson Eugene Dey Maritza Felices-Luna Sylvie Frigon Grace Gámez Bob Gaucher
Christine Gervais Colleen Hackett Kelly Hannah-Moffatt Stacey Hannem Charles Huckelbury Jennifer Kilty Doran Larson Sandra Lehalle Michael Lenza Tara Lyons MaDonna Maidment Katharina Maier Joane Martel
Dialogue Editor: Prisoners’ Struggles Editor: Book Review Editor: Managing Editor: Editorial Assistants:
Shadd Maruna Erin McCuaig Jeffrey Monaghan Dawn Moore Melissa Munn Mecke Nagel Susan Nagelsen Justin Piché Rose Ricciardelli Stephen C. Richards Jeffrey Ian Ross Viviane Saleh-Hanna Judah Schept
Sarah Speight Vicki Chartrand Jeffrey Monaghan Inês Ferreira Dias Tavares Valérie Bouillon, Bilguundari Enkhtugs and Nicole Necsefor
Renita Seabrook Rashad Shabazz Lisa Smith Sarah Speight Dale Spencer Brian Chad Starks Kelly Struthers Montford Grant Tietjen Ben Turk Kevin Walby Jason Williams Denise Woodall Matt Yeager
TheJournal of Prisoners on Prisonspublishes two volumes a year. Its purpose is to encourage research on a wide range of issues related to crime, justice, and punishment by current and former prisoners. Donations to theJPPare welcomed.
SUBMISSIONS:Current and former prisoners are encouraged to submit original papers, collaborative essays, discussions transcribed from tape, book reviews, and photo or graphic essays that have not been published elsewhere. TheJournaldoes not usually publish fiction or poetry. TheJournalwill publish articles in either French or English. Articles should be no longer than 20 pages typed and double-spaced or legibly handwritten. Electronic submissions are gratefully received. Writers may elect to write anonymously or under a pseudonym. For references cited in an article, the writer should attempt to provide the necessary bibliographic information. Refer to the references cited in this issue for examples. Submissions are reviewed by members of the Editorial Board. Selected articles are corrected for composition and returned to the authors for their approval before publication. Papers not selected are returned with editor’s comments. Revised papers may be resubmitted. Please submit bibliographical and contact information, to be published alongside articles unless otherwise indicated.
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INTRODUCTION FROM THE ISSUE EDITORS Voices from the Inside, Voices from Beyond: Reflections on the (Prison) Pandemic Kevin Walby and Justin Piché..................................................................1
ARTICLES Night Time Lukas Carey..............................................................................................7
Experience in the Essex County Youthhouse Detention Center During the 1990’s Omar Austin........................................................................11....................
Fourteen to Forty: Creating Something Out of Nothing Jeremiah Bourgeois................................................................................13
Doin’ Time in the Late Twenty Teens Gordon Melvin........................................................................................19
Making ‘Friends’ at the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre Adam Dufresne.......................................................................................24
Peer Support and Well-Being: Exploring the Impact of Peer-Led Induction on Male Prisoners Ed Schreeche-Powell....................03..........................................................
First Amendment Under Attack in Illinois Prisons: The Price of Dissent George Peter........................................................................................6...1
Riots Expose Bleak Future for Corrections in Massachusetts and Nationwide Charles N. Diorio...................................................................................68
Restrictive Housing Unit: New Name, Same Flower Sean J. White..........................................................................................72
Miscarriage of Justice in the Commonwealth Jermaine Pickett.....................................................................................75
A Bleeding and Broken System Mark Zammit..........................................................................................77
Locked-up and in Limbo: Living Stateless in my Hometown Jail Deepan Budlakoti...................................................................................79
On Counting W.E. Roberts...........................................................................................84
Fill in the Blanks W.E. Roberts...........................................................................................86
A Loss of Memory? W.E. Roberts...........................................................................................89
RESPONSE Communities of Advocacy, Resources and Supports in the Wake of COVID-19 Vicki Chartrand......................................................................................92
PRISONERS’ STRUGGLES COVID-19 Care Kits: Mutual Aid for Prisoners in Saskatchewan and Alberta Nancy Van Styvendale.............................................................................97
Prairie Province Prisoner Support Fund Free Lands Free Peoples.............................................................1.40........
Advocating for the Human Rights of Prisoners Millhaven Lifers’ Liaison Group..........................................................108
Out of Sight and Out of Mind: The Incarcerated Mothers Offering Mutual Support / MOMS.........................................110
Coronavirus, droits humains et détention des personnes migrantes Collectif ensemble avec les personnes migrantes contre le racisme, Rencontre Interculturelle des Familles de l’Estrie et Solidarité sans frontières Sherbrooke............511...................................
How Our Advocacy Continues During a Pandemic Jane Crosby – Books 2 Prisoners Ottawa............................................117
DemandsMadeRegardingFederalPrisons During the COVID-19 Pandemic Termite Collective0..............21...................................................................
My Experience of COVID-19 in a (Fake) Minimum Security Institution Hassan Al-Ghazzi.................................................................................122
Life at Joyceville Minimum During COVID-19 Kevin Belanger.....................................................................................124
COVID-19 Behind Bars Steven Zehr...........................................................................................126
Raw Vs. The Law: Our Fight for Vegetables at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre Erica Brazeau.....................................1..27................................................
COVID-19 and Prisoners Anonymous from Saskatchewan Penitentiary.......................................130
Edmonton Max Reflections Luqman Osman................................1.13....................................................
Edmonton Max Anonymous from Edmonton Institution................................................134
BOOK REVIEWS Prison Pedagogies Edited by Joe Lockard and Sherry Rankins-Robertson Syracuse: Syracuse University Press (2018) 272pp. Reviewed by Lucas Ridgeway...............................................................137
Available Titles and Call for Book Reviews: Journal of Prisoners on Prisons..................1.14........................................
UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUES – CALLS FOR PAPERS 25 Years of Convict Criminology Grant Tietjen, J. Renee Trombley and Alison Cox................................144
Anti-colonial Carceral Abolition Thalia Anthony, Vicki Chartrand and Tracey McIntosh Ngāi Tūhoe...............................................................147
Walls to Bridges Shoshana Pollack and Christine Mayor...............................150................
Homelessness and Incarceration Erin Dej and Dale Spencer.....................................................1..............35
Prison Labour Jordan House and Kelly Struthers Montford........................................155
COVER ART “Flower Skull” (front cover) Jessica Kakeeway 2019 ......................................................................................................158
INTRODUCTION FROM THE EDITORS
Voices from the Inside, Voices from Beyond: Reflections on the (Prison) Pandemic Kevin Walby and Justin Piché
THE COVID-19 AND PRISON PANDEMICS
As we write, it is the middle of July 2020. In the contemporary pandemic moment, public health authorities have put in place a number of measures in a stated effort to prevent and manage the spread of the novel coronavirus, which range from limiting the size of public and private gatherings to isolation orders and complete lockdowns. Despite the restrictions, COVID-19 has nonetheless spread – to a greater or lesser degree – in different parts of the world. To date, there have been over 14.5 million confirmed cases of the disease (WHO, 2020). Over 600,000 people have lost their lives (ibid). The looming threat of contracting and potentially dying from disease, along with the significant disruptions in all aspects and spheres of life, have no doubt generated profound uncertainty and anguish for many. This is especially the case for those pushed to the margins by colonialist, capitalist, racist and white supremacist, patriarchal, heteronormative, ableist, ageist and other violent structures of inequality in the world that generate water, food, housing, income, health, mental health, environmental, and other forms of insecurity. In examining who has been rendered disposable during the present crisis, that is who has been made most vulnerable to COVID-19 transmission and death, it becomes clear that human beings who are made to live in congregate settings like prisons are at heightened risk (Oladeruet al., 2020). From where we write in Canada, there have been 600 prisoners and 229 prison staff members who are confirmed to have contracted the disease (Ouellet and Loiero, 2020). Three prisoners have died (ibid). If testing was more readily done inside sites of confinement, the number of COVID-19 cases amongst people held in provincial-territorial and federal prisons in Canada would likely be higher (Blairet al., 2020). Preliminary data suggests that in Canadian provinces where COVID-19 cases have been linked to prisons, transmission rates are at least five times higher amongst prisoners than the general population (Ouellet and Loiero, 2020). In the United States, over 70,700 prisoners have tested positive for COVID-19 in federal and
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state prisons, and over 700 have died (see Marshall Project, 2020). These numbers do not account for cases and deaths in jails or other carceral spaces across the United States. Recognizing this risk in the midst of a longstanding prison pandemic, when it is estimated that there are over 11 million people held in sites of human caging around the world (Walmsley, 2018), has prompted at least some jurisdictions to devise a series of COVID-19 prevention and management measures that have had both liberatory and repressive outcomes for prisoners, in keeping with longer contradictory and volatile patterns in penal policy and practice (O’Malley, 1999). For instance, Canadian provinces and territories – who incarcerate people awaiting trials and serving sentences of two-years-minus-a-day – have reduced their prison population by more 7,000 prisoners (Ouellet, 2020), representing more than a 25% reduction since the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. At the same time, they have suspended visits, programming, and other activities within their facilities to limit movement in and out of sites of confinement. They have also employed lockdowns frequently in the name of promoting physical distancing and used segregation in the name of quarantining new prisoners upon admission, as well as medically isolating captives that test positive for the coronavirus or are symptomatic. For its part, the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) – who incarcerate people serving federal terms of imprisonment of two-years-plus-a-day – have been criticized for imposing many of the restrictions noted above with few releases (e.g. OCI, 2020a, 2020b) in the name of public health and safety. CSC continues along this path despite having poorer public health outcomes with more confirmed COVID-19 cases amongst their prisoners and personnel than their provincial-territorial counterparts who imprison more people (Piché, 2020). Moreover, CSC continues to cage people with the knowledge that imprisonment undermines public safety (Mathiesen, 1990). That many jurisdictions across the world are not heeding to basic public health and safety knowledge by diverting people from custody and decarcerating prisoners is both dangerous and reprehensible. Sites of confinement disappear people, while operating as incubators of disease (Drucker, 2011) and death (Razack, 2015) at alarming rates even in ‘normal’ times. The COVID-19 pandemic has further entrenched these realities of incarceration. During this crisis, we have been unable to maintain
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contact with many of our contributors, in part because theJournal of Prisoners on Prisons(JPP) o൶ce at the University of Ottawa was closed for months and written correspondence in prisons has been significantly slowed. In the bleakest of scenarios, it is also possible that someJPPcontributors have contracted COVID-19 and been placed in solitary confinement by another name, have been hospitalized or have lost their lives. More optimistically, we hopeJPPcontributors we have been unable to maintain contact with during the pandemic have been released from prison with community supports in place. It is for these reasons that this introduction is dedicated to the “Voices from the Inside, Voices from Beyond”. While the COVID-19 and prison pandemics result in the suspension of liberties and other life-a൶rming activities, the journal remains committed to providing a platform for currently and formerly imprisoned writers to shed light on how human caging harms, maims, and kills people. Their writing communicates the palpable sense of loss and despair that imprisonment engenders – violence that ought to come to an end so that every person is treated like a human being.
THIS ISSUE
At theJPPwe believe in promoting the voices and insights of imprisoned and criminalized persons. Other writings such as those of the media and even academics tend to frame the experiences of prisoners in ways that are limiting (also see Fischer-Hoffman, 2020). Several of the papers in this issue of theJPPfocus on experiences of, and pains resulting from, imprisonment. Lukas Carey writes about the temporal dimensions of imprisonment, and the ‘brain games’ that evenings and nights in the prison can play on people behind bars. Omar Austin provides a unique perspective on harsh treatment endured in the context of youth detention, including at the hands of prison o൶cers who are adults o൶cially tasked with serving as role models for young people with whom the law is in conflict. Jeremiah Bourgeois reflects on the feeling of being imprisoned from his teenage years to adulthood and the courage it requires to take on life challenges such as completing education behind bars. Gordon Melvin similarly reflects on the feeling that prison steals one’s life away from them and the issue of ageing in prison. Additional contributions in this issue of theJPPfocus on the idea of being supported in prison or jail and the challenges people face in finding solace and inspiration. Writing about the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre in
