This is a special episode about a new migrant detention centre/migrant prison being built outside of Montreal and the struggle that is unfolding against it and all borders and prisons.

Ep 5: Prisoner Justice Day in the Prison for Women

May 8th, 2019 28m 46s

This episode features Ann, an anarchist who was arrested in the 1980s for participating in an underground guerilla group called Direct Action. She ended up getting a life sentence and doing 7 years in Kingston's Prison for Women (P4W), which is

Ep 4: Prisoner Justice Day from the Outside

May 7th, 2019 31m 32s

This episode features Marie Beemans, an outside activist and organizer who has been supporting prisoners since she was a teenager. Marie was particularly active with a group called the Office des Droits des Detenues (or ODD), which was affiliat

Ep 3: Prisoner Justice Day, Inmates Committees, and Resistance on the Inside

May 6th, 2019 44m 19s

In the third episode, we talk to Gene, who started doing time in canadian prisons in 1972. Gene talks to us about the early days of PJD on the inside and the role that inmates committees and outside support played in prisoner resistance in the

Ep 2: Prisoner Justice Day on the Inside

May 5th, 2019 27m 42s

This episode features Papi, who spent 29 years in prison in canada. He talks about conditions on the inside in the 1970s and 1980s, including what it was like to be in prison for Prisoner Justice Day back then. He also talks about prisoner resi

Ep 1: The Backstory of Prisoner Justice Day

May 4th, 2019 29m 48s

This is the first episode of 'What happened to Prisoner Justice Day?': a podcast mini series about the history of prisons in canada focusing on differences in the prison system in the 1960s-1980s versus today. The podcast features interviews wi

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