Dec 2 2022 — Lisa Kerr — Globe and Mail — Recently, Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre released a YouTube video entitled “Everything feels broken,” in which he sits on a picturesque Vancouver beach with a tent city in the background. With a good degree of compassion, he describes the opioid dependency that he says fills these tents. But he offers an incongruous solution: tough punishment […]
Apr 21 2020 — Lisa Kerr — The Conversation — The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare several unsettling truths about Canada’s prison system. Our institutions of state punishment are filled with medically vulnerable people, affected by lifelong difficulties accessing care along with unhealthy prison conditions.
Apr 21 2020 — Lisa Kerr — The Conversation — Prisons around the worlds have started to reduce their population in response to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli Lisa Kerr, Queen’s University, Ontario The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare several unsettling truths about Canada’s prison system. Our institutions of state punishment are filled with medically vulnerable people, affected by lifelong difficulties accessing care along […]