Human on the Inside: Unlocking the Truth About Canada's Prisons - Couverture souple

Garrison, Gary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0889773769 ISBN 13 : 9780889773769

Editeur : University of Regina Press, 2015

Synopsis

In Human on the Inside Gary Garrison takes readers out of their comfort zones and into "The Max," one of Canada's most notorious and violent prisons, introducing us to a vibrant subculture of inmates, guards, and staff. Through personal stories, Garrison illuminates a criminal justice system that ignores poverty, racism, mental illness, and addiction and deals instead with society's problems with razor wire and harsh treatment. It is a system that degrades the individual and sees inmates as less than human. Providing a counterbalance to fear-mongering about criminals, he argues that a dehumanizing system generates more crime, not less, and perpetuates another injustice, this time committed on behalf of all Canadians.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gary Garrison is the author of Human on the Inside: Unlocking the Truth about Canadian Prisons. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Alberta, and was Editor of Alberta Hansard. He lives in Edmonton.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Regina Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0889773769
• ISBN 13: 9780889773769
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 241
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne