DOES CANADA NEED BIGGER PRISONS?
- What's going on and why?
- What's the cost? We don’t know … $2 billion? $3 billion?
- Isn’t violent crime decreasing?
- Nearly half the inmates in our prisons have a serious mental illness and/or drug addiction problems
- Are there are cheaper ways to make us feel secure?
Panelists include:
Lorraine Berzins, Community Chair of Justice, Church Committee on Justice and Corrections
Kim Pate, Lawyer, Director of Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies
Marc Garneau, M.P. for Westmount-Ville-Marie
Simon Potter, Lawyer, Partner at McCarthy Tétrault, and former president, Canadian Bar Association
Justin Piche, Ph.D. candidate with thesis on "Factors shaping prison construction in Canada and available alternatives"
APRIL 21, 2011, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
- Where did the understanding of how to conduct social change protests in Egypt and Tunisia come from?
- Why have protests taken a different turn in Libya?
- What happened in Dakar at the February meeting of the World Social Forum? (Final Declaration of the Forum)
- What is this, the largest movement in human history, all about anyway?
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