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Building Our Way Towards Safer Communities? Prison Capacity Expansion and the Need for an Alternative Approach


November 25, 2011


Governments across Canada are in the process of establishing close to 10,000 new prisoner beds at a construction cost of more than $3.6 billion and counting, with millions more in expenditures to operate and manage new penal infrastructure. With most provinces and territories not having factored in the impact of federal sentencing measures into their decisions to build new prison spaces, this presentation considers the impact that such laws may have on prison populations and whether further investments in penal infrastructure will be required to absorb the influx of more prisoners, serving longer sentences, with fewer chances of release, at a high fiscal cost and poor return on social investment were community safety is concerned. As sentencing measures and decisions to expand prison capacity are policy choices, rather than inevitable responses to criminalized conflicts and harms in our communities, this presentation concludes with a discussion on how the future can otherwise be different by considering alternative ways of conceptualizing and responding to these issues.
Guest Speaker: Sociologist Justin Piche, Memorial University.
Everyone Welcome. Free Admission.

Time: 11:30 am
Venue: Moot Court, Robson Hall, University of Manitoba
Location: 224 Dysart Rd Winnipeg, MB
Website: http://chrr.info/events/180-alternatives-to-prision-expansion
Categories: Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

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