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Eli Larsen in
Eli Larsen Is incarceration really an effective method of crime control?
Justin Piché On Canadian jails, prisons and penitentiaries in a pandemic
Noam Chomsky PSA for community radio
A Shamaluev PSA for local
Billie Holliday Strange Fruit
Eli Larsen seg
Justin Piché What the op-ed tells us about Canadian attitudes to incarcerated individuals
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Ohio So Far
Peter, Paul and Mary Blowin' In the Wind
Eli Larsen Justin argues that penitentiaries do more harm than good: what do you think?
Program: 

Significant Vectors of COVID, with Justin Piché, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa and co-author of the op-ed Prison Pandemic Partnership. Justin and I will be discussing this document, about offering basic human dignity in incarcerated settings across Canada in a time of COVID.

Justin's co-authors are Kevin Walby, Associate Professor, Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg and Abby Deshman, Director of Criminal Justice Program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Justin himself has the following impressive credentials, which makes it hard to discredit his opinions:

Director, Carceral Studies Research Collective
Co-editor, Journal of Prisoners on Prisons 
Member, Criminalization and Punishment Education Project
Member, Abolition Coalition
Member, Human Rights Research and Education Centre
Recipient, SSHRC Aurora Prize, 2012
Recipient, Young Researcher Award – uOttawa FSS, 2016
Recipient, Media and Community Award – uOttawa FSS, 2020

The date that informs this op-ed is available at https://ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/43358

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