The Alberta Prison Justice Society (APJS) is an organization devoted to addressing injustices in correctional institutions.
Alberta, Canada
Joined November 2018
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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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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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This is what happens when PDD, brain injury, and mental health is defunded. Housing support, lifeskills, addiction treatment, and employment supports would make them less vulnerable. At least there was safety and numbers.
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If we really want to make rehabilitation in prison a priority let’s provide individuals real counselors trained in trauma informed care who have the best interest of the incarcerated individual at heart.
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“On average, evidence suggests that custodial sanctions increase reoffending compared to non-custodial sanctions.”
An interesting @CollegeofPolice meta analysis of 116 studies on the effectiveness of custodial penalties college.police.uk/research/c…
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Housing not jails.
Nearly 20% of inmates homeless upon release from Ontario jails, data shows theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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This made me cry, and think about last month's report of the inmates in Edmonton Remand who died after being refused healthcare.
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Retired correctional officer writes book about battle with PTSD - Cdn federal prisons are traumatising places for both correctional officers + prisoners- both suffer from PTSD: Let's compare with PTSD rates in Norweigan prisons | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/10093350/…
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Studies show that prison is no deterrent to a person's decision when committing a crime. So the threat of longer prison sentences make no effect on crime rates, they just get a politician elected. Prison reform starts with TRUTH.
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Longer prison sentences are a threat to public safety. They increase the stress markers that led most to prison in the 1st place. They are job security & a cash cow for those work for/invest in the prison industrial complex. We have believed a lie still being told.
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Oh look alberta is trending globally on Reddit because of our broken police accountability / Alberta Justice system.
Over to Justice Minister @mickeyamery for action, please. #ableg @justiceforpacey
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I will never understand what we think the death penalty achieves. People hurt others because they themselves are hurting so how does perpetuating all this hurt help humans heal?
I have faith we can do better.
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Alberta Prison Justice Society (APJS) retweeted
Former adviser to Stephen Harper:
"Tough on crime” is overdue for a rebrand as “stupid on crime” because it makes us less safe, costs us billions of dollars and perpetuates cycles of trauma and violence."
#lawx #lawtwitter #cdnpoli #abpoli #Police
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