Week 9 - History Of Incarceration Flashcards
Isolate Pennsylvania system
Based on patience
Isolated, studying bible, and working
Don’t see other inmates
Congregate (auburn system)
Based on notion of improvement through work
Eat and with other inmates but in silence
Rest alone in celll
The big house
1920s-1940s response to heavy incarceration
Practise being in society from behind bars
Ware house imprisonment
-Post 1980 imprisonment skyrocket
-Rise of “tough on crime”
-More people arrested - better you looked as a politician
List the three levels of imprisonment and their details
- Min security - no walls or fences
- Medium security - enclosed by fences
- Max security - high risk people
___________ ___________ are centres responsible for mental health courts, probation, and community corrections
Remand centres
Provincial institutions for those waiting trial
Remand centres
Correctional service of Canada is divided into five regions
- Atlantic
- Quebec
- Ontario
- Prairie
- Pacific
Stripped away of who you were before prison.
- clothing taken
-given ID number
- freedom
Mortification process
Vocational training
CORCAN: agency that provides inmates with skills
Who is in prison?
Indigenous 23.9%
Black 9%
Christian 44.4%
No religion 15.5%
Trans 0.057%
- Ran by indigenous communities/organizations though agreements with CSC
- Holistic approach
Under funded, staffing issues, lower wages - have 6 lodges
Section 81 lodges
List three barriers to accessing healing lodges and section 81 use
- Limited use
- Underfunded
- Over classification of indigenous prisoners
Issues with remand as punishment
- More adults in remand then sentenced to custody
- Harsh conditions
- Legal and systemic issues
