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  1. Abbas fears the Prisoners' Hunger Strike
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is due to meet Donald Trump to discuss reviving the long-cold corpse of the peace process. Back home, things are heating up. There is anger in the West Bank, both on the streets and within the ranks of Abbas's Fatah movement. The trigger is a hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners.
  2. Bulldozer
    Periodical profile published 1982
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    Intended as a vehicle for prison reform, Bulldozer publishes letters, poems and articles by and about prisoners in North American maximum security institutions.
  3. Bulldozer
    Periodical profile published 1984
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
    Inactive/Defunct Periodical
  4. Bulletin of the Quaker Jails and Justice Committee
    Vol. 1 No. 5
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    Irregularly published newsletter outlining some of the current concerns and activities of the Quaker Committee.
  5. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Pilot Copy, February 1976
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
    The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
  6. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
  7. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
  8. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
  9. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  10. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  11. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
  12. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
  13. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
  14. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  15. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  16. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
  17. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
  18. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
  19. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
  20. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  21. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  22. Crayons of Askalan
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    In 1975, at the age of fifteen, Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adaw is sentenced and confined in the high security prison of Askalan, Israel for fifteen years. With the help of his fellow prisoners and their families, he manages to stay alive by smuggling in colour crayons and smuggling out his allegorical artwork done on pillowcases, so it finds its way to the outside world.
  23. Crime, Prison and Alternatives
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1978
  24. Culhane, Claire
    Connexipedia: Article from PrisonJustice.ca
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian social justice activist. (1918-1996).
  25. Herman's House
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    'What kind of house does a man who has been imprisoned in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell for over 30 years dream of?' This film captures the remarkable creative journey and friendship of Herman Wallace, one of the Angola 3, and artist Jackie Sumell while examining the injustice of prolonged solitary confinement.
  26. John Howard Society of Quebec, Quarterly Journal
    Periodical profile published 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  27. My Freedom, Your Freedom
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    Knowing nothing but drugs and violence since childhood, Kuebra and Salema have spent their adult years in and out of a Berlin prison, their experiences calling into question the effectiveness of incarceration.
  28. Nelson Mandela
    The Struggle Is My Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    This is an updated account of Nelson Mandela's speeches and political writings from both his days as leader of the African Congress Youth League in 1944 to his release from prison in 1990. The excerpts from his trial are riveting and revealing of the governments mind-set on apertheid. Mandela emerges as a man with patience, thoughtfulness and character. The text is enhanced with an index and new photographs.
  29. Prison Abolition & Alternatives
    Nine Perspectives for Prison Abolitionists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    A argument for the abolition of prisons and a discussion of alternatives.
  30. Quaker Committee on Jails and Justice
    Organization profile published 1982
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1982
    QUAKER COMMITTEE ON JAILS AND JUSTICE (AQCJJ) holds, as its long-term goal, the abolition of prisons; that is the building of supportive community which has no need of prisons.
  31. Quaker Committee on Jails and Justice
    Organization profile published 1984
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1984
  32. A Quaker Committee on Jails and Justice Newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    A newsletter that argues against capital punishment.
  33. Quaker Prison Committee
    A series of reflections by Ruth Morris, director of Canadian Friends Service Committee
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    A look at two case histories vis. the bail system and pre-trial treatment of those charged.
  34. The Return of Commercial Prison Labour
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Prisons are seldom mentioned under the rubric of labour market institutions such as temporary work contracts or collective bargaining agreements. Yet, prisons not only employ labour but also cast a shadow on the labour force in or out of work. The early labour movement considered the then prevalent use of prison labour for commercial purposes as unfair competition. By the 1930s, the U.S. labour movement was strong enough to have work for commercial purposes prohibited in prisons.
  35. Silvia Baraldini Wins Return Home
    Against The Current vol. 81
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    On June 11 the U.S. government agreed to a longstanding Italian request to allow political prisoner Silvia Baraldini to serve the rest of her term in her native country. The move, announced by U.S. Ambassador to Italy Thomas Foglietta, appeared to be an attempt to appease Italian public opinion about the U.S. army plane that sliced a gondola cable when flying too low and too fast in the Italian Alps on February 3, 1998, killing twenty people. The pilot, Marine Captain Richard Asby, was recently acquitted by a U.S. military tribunal. In that case Italy returned the pilots involved in the Cermis tragedy and allowed them to be tried in their country of origin.
  36. Statement of Claire Culhane, Provincial Court, New Westminster, B.C.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    This is a statement by Claire Culhane in provincial court where she pleaded not guilty to a charge of trespassing on penitentiary land.
  37. The Story Inside: How Amnesty Does Its Work
    Resource Type: Article
  38. Submission to the Sub-Committee on the Penitentiary Systems In Canada Hearings
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    A list of recommendations on how to fix certain issues in the prison system.
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