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Human on the Inside: Unlocking the Truth about Canada's Prisons

Human on the Inside: Unlocking the Truth about Canada's Prisons

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ISBN10: 0889773769
ISBN13: 9780889773769
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Published: Feb 28 2015
Pages: 293
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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