Skyler Sappier’s family fights for justice after jail outbreak led to COVID death [video]
It was on Loyalist Day — May 18, 2023 — at the courthouse in “the loyalist city” of Saint John ...
Tag: carceral state
Overcrowded prisons, or over-imprisoned populations?
In December 2021, officials in the New Brunswick government announced the planned construction of a new jail. The jail’s price ...
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Canada’s criminal legal system is unjust: Senator Kim Pate [video]
Independent Senator Kim Pate says that Canada’s criminal legal system is unjust, discriminatory and biased against Indigenous people and people ...
‘We need to push back’: El Jones calls for prison abolition as province pushes ahead with $32M jail
As the New Brunswick government pressed ahead last fall with its controversial plan for a $32-million jail in Fredericton, poet, activist ...
POETRY: The In Between Part II (after reading Alden Nowlan’s A certain kind of holy men)
Author's note: Fredericton’s Planning Advisory Committee has recommended against the rezoning required to build a jail near the community of ...
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Proposed $32M jail meets opposition from Planning Advisory Committee, local residents [video]
Fredericton’s Planning Advisory Committee (PAC) has recommended against a rezoning proposal to build a new jail in Vanier Industrial Park, ...
Critics slam proposed sale of land to province for $32M jail
Fredericton city council has passed a motion that paves the way for the municipality to sell a 25-acre plot of ...