The Alberta Prison Justice Society (APJS) is an organization devoted to addressing injustices in correctional institutions.
Alberta, Canada
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How many Albertans are aware of the cost attached to incarceration? How many would be in favour of spending more money on addictions, housing, and mental health services if they knew how much we're spending to warehouse people in jail?
Only 18 days away from the CPLA prison justice conference in Vancouver! It's an exciting year for prison justice cases getting leave to the SCC and a great time to reinvigorate discussion of prison justice issues.
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Opinion: The revolution in online learning has skipped over our prisons – and that helps nobody /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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Ibrahim Ali, who had schizophrenia, was assaulted by another inmate, police said. He was in hospital for 3 days before a social worker informed the family. By the time the family rushed to his side, doctors told them he had no chance of survival.
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Last year in Edmonton, 302 homeless people died.
That's up eight times what it was pre-pandemic (37 in 2019). It's part of an overall alarming increase in homeless deaths across Alberta (124 in 2019 to 787 in 2023).
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People pushed to the margins are victimized & criminalized at higher rates. One would think govts would invest in proven measures to prevent victimization & upstream community supports rather than ‘tough’ measures proven to fail time & time again.
#BuildCommunitiesNotCages
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Sentences to prison are the punishment for the crime: security levels within prisons are to manage risks posed by prisoners within the prisons + not punishment. Has this prisoner shown that the risks he poses can't be managed at a medium security prison? cbc.ca/news/politics/parliam…
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Canada continues to subject federal prisoners to solitary confinement under different names. All prisoners should participate in work and educational programs and maintain support networks. Define and prohibit abusive solitary. #FFRR
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If this is the kind of stuff coming out of progressive politicians, the upcoming Auto-theft Summit is going to be one giant wreck caused by people at the wheel who demonstrably haven't got a clue, but insist on driving us into prison walls anyways.
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This makes me think of the men went to the Edmonton Remand Centres for unpaid fines and were killed while in there
Barry Stewart, unpaid LRT fine, was killed by his cell mate in 2011 and Daniel Robinson, unpaid driving fine, was killed by staff in 2021
#yeg #yegcc #ableg
Edmonton would ban public drug use, loitering on transit, panhandling by roads in new bylaw #yeg #yegcc
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When thinking about how this period of time will be remembered, it seems likely that it will eventually be acknowledged as an atrocity in the same vein as Alberta’s history of forced sterilizations. One has to wonder if the GOA, COE, and EPS are trying to kill off the homeless…
Taken last night at Bissell Center in Edmonton- they were over capacity and people standing outside. It was nearly -40! Told Kohkum’s out there, crying. They started a fire to keep warm. @ABDanielleSmith @JasonNixonAB there is not enough emergency shelter spaces unlike you’re claiming. Those whose encampments were torn down Weds were in this line up. Video by Judith Gale of Bear Claw Patrol
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With the severe weather we’re seeing right now, these sweeps will kill people. Given the disproportionate number of Indigenous people impacted by this, I suspect that history will view this as part of a genocide.
Good on @avnishnanda for fighting this.
EPS are evicting Indigenous peoples from their own territory and sweeping encampments in -30°C weather.
They're shoving people's faces into snow, handcuffing bare hands, brutalizing elders and arresting journalists.
And WE are paying for it.
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Encampment clearings are both cruel and counterproductive. To folks like @ABDanielleSmith and @DMMcFee who have been endorsing encampment clearings as some sort of safety measure, here's why you’re wrong and should look to better funding of housing and support services (a thread)
Encampment clearings are not only heartless and pointless, they will actively make things worse by promoting crime fueled by desperation and endangering the lives of the most vulnerable.
@ABDanielleSmith and @DMMcFee : stop trying to justify them and do something that works.
Finally, @AmarjeetSohiYEG : it is clear that the @CityofEdmonton has been complicit with the clearings. Please stop handwringing, admit the COE’s role in all of this, and work to make housing and services a priority.