Recent Pieces

Everything you were never taught about Canada’s prison systems: A primer on Canada’s urgent human rights crisis (July 2017)

This infographic essay was co-written with Marsha McLeod and Jody Chan, and offers an introduction to Canada's prison system. The piece covers issues related to prison labour, access to education, solitary confinement, mental health, use of force, and the overrepresentation of racialized people in the prison system.  Using public data from news articles and government reports, the piece makes Canada’s incarceration problem more visible by providing a snapshot of its many injustices and human rights violations.