Today, the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) launched Volume 29, Number 1 & 2 – a double-issue assembled during the course of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic that threatened the health and prematurely ended the lives of scores of people, including prisoners. The article section of this issue features peer-reviewed contributions on a host of problems that existed in prisons prior to the pandemic such as the challenges prisoners face when coping with being disconnected from partners, family and friends, being subject to austere conditions of confinement including in segregation units that go by other names, and miscarriages of justice. The Response and Prisoners’ Struggles sections of this issue include several contributions documenting the impact of measures instituted by Canadian carceral state entities to prevent and manage the spread of COVID-19 behind prison walls. Some of the prisoner solidarity and mutual aid initiatives that have supported current and former prisoners in Canada profiled in this issue also provide a snapshot of the horrific treatment endured by criminalized people during the pandemic.        

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As people behind and beyond bars prepare to mark Prisoners’ Justice Day (PJD) for the forty-sixth time on Monday, August 10^th the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) launched Volume 28, Number 2 online. This special issue, titled “Prison (In)justice in Canada at the Crossroads”, features dozens of contributions written by federal prisoners on the many barriers and challenges they face in trying to better their lives and work towards their release from Correctional Service Canada (CSC) institutions.

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VOLUME 27, NUMBER 1 (2018) is now available in print. Click here to order a printed copy of the full issue edited by Justin Piché and Kevin Walby through the University of Ottawa Press, which will be available online in January 2019. Content currently available for download includes the introduction to the issue, individual articles from a section dedicated to "Continuing the Dialogue on Canada's Federal Penitentiary System" edited by Jarrod Shook, as well as Prisoners' Struggles pieces and a book review. All inquiries about the issue can be sent to jpp@uottawa.ca.

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Journal of Prisoners on Prisons launches Volume 26, Number 1&2 - "Dialogue on Canada’s Federal Penitentiary System and the Need for Change". Read More Read more about Launch of Volume 26(1&2) of the JPP