Perspectives on Prison Labour in Canada and Beyond: An Introduction

House, Jordan; Montford, Kelly Struthers

doi:10.18192/jpp.v31i2.6531

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“…Prison protests during COVID-19 have been remarkably, albeit not exclusively, nonviolent. Given the proliferation of hunger strikes, work stoppages, and other nonviolent prison protests in North America over the last decade (Berger and Losier, 2018;Gatewood and Norris, 2019;House, 2020), scholars have identified a need to further analyze and theorize nonriotous prison protest. In recent years, commentators have given some attention to prison organizing in the civil rights era (Berger, 2014), women's organizing efforts (Law, 2009), and prisoner labor organizing (House and Rashid, 2022).…”

Section: "Porous" Prison Protestmentioning

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“A prison is no place for a pandemic”: Canadian prisoners’ collective action in the time of COVID-19

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House

2023

Punishment & Society

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Since the onset of COVID-19, social protest has expanded significantly. Little, however, has been written on prison-led and prison justice organizing in the wake of the pandemic—particularly in the Canadian context. This article is a case study of prisoner organizing in Canada throughout the first 18 months of COVID-19, which draws on qualitative interviews, media, and documentary analysis. We argue that the pandemic generated conditions under which the grievances raised by prisoners, and the strategies through which they were articulated, made possible a discursive bridge to the anxieties and grievances experienced by those in the community, thinning the walls of state-imposed societal exclusion. We demonstrate that prisons are sites of fierce contestation and are deeply embedded in, rather than separate from, our society. An important lesson learned from this case study is the need for prison organizing campaigns to strategically embrace multi-issue framing and engage in sustained coalition building.

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Section: "Porous" Prison Protestmentioning

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“…These activists drew tools and strategies directly from their experiences of incarceration. Many movement activists in the community would also go on to become prison activists after becoming incarcerated as a result of their political activities (Cummins, 1994;House, 2020).…”

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“A prison is no place for a pandemic”: Canadian prisoners’ collective action in the time of COVID-19

Evans

House

2023

Punishment & Society

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Perspectives on Prison Labour in Canada and Beyond: An Introduction

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“A prison is no place for a pandemic”: Canadian prisoners’ collective action in the time of COVID-19

“A prison is no place for a pandemic”: Canadian prisoners’ collective action in the time of COVID-19

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