Prison Radio Show

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.

This episode features Ann, an anarchist who was arrested in the 1980s for participating in an underground guerilla group called Direct Action. Ann talked to us about the differences between doing time in the Prison for Women (P4W) in Kingston versus the Grand Valley Institute (GVI). She also mentions Quinte - which is a provincial prison.

In 2018, Ann published a book called 'Taking the Rap: Women Doing Time for Society's Crimes'. You should check it out.

This episode features Marie Beemans, an outside activist and organizer who has been supporting prisoners since she was a teenager. Marie was active with a group called the Office des Droits des Detenues (or ODD). Marie talks about what drew her to prisoner support and prison abolition organizing and what that organizing looked like.

We mention the zine 'Under New Management', which is available online at https://north-shore.info and in paper at leftwingbooks.net.

This episode features Gene, who started doing time in canadian prisons in 1972. Gene talks to us about the early days of PJD and the role that inmates committees and outside support played in prisoner resistance in the 70s and 80s. He talks about protective custody or PC, and how changes to protective custody policies in federal prisons undermined solidarity.

We mention the website penalpress.com. The site features a catalogue of newspapers produced in prisons.