Supporting Those Left Inside: Meeting Needs Behind Prison Walls
Supporting Those Left Inside: Meeting Needs Behind Prison Walls During the Pandemic
While a significant number of prisoners are being released or diverted from detention across Canada, the majority of Canada’s incarcerated populations remain locked inside. Access to basic amenities inside is always a struggle – things like personal hygiene products, access to communication, and healthy foods, among many other things, are hard to come by. In the current pandemic, the need to access such scarce resources is even more urgent.
This panel brings together people with lived experience, frontline workers and researchers to discuss what we must do to support people who remain incarcerated, and how to highlight the chronic failures of the criminal injustice system to push for decarceral futures.
Speakers to be announced soon!
WATCH THE LIVESTREAM on ZOOM:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81612773716
Note: This webinar will have automatically generated closed-captions. After the event, a recording will be made available online.
TAKE ACTION:
Demand personal protection, decarceration, and free communication for prisoners during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Use our 3 easy email ZAP tools every week: https://linktr.ee/prisonerrightsproject
DONATE:
Support the COVID-19 Emergency Support Fund for Prisoners and their families to help those being released into the community and those left behind bars: