inequality in prisons

Adam Miller. A recent two-part report from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) exposes how public pensions are intertwined with some of the most harmful institutions out there — immigration detention centers and private prisons.

Racial inequality inside of Canadian prisons is shocking and sometimes unbelievable when taken into account the percentage a minority group takes up in Canada’s overall population versus behind bars. Prison health care inequality. But if I’m right — if inequality, incarceration and racism make pandemics worse — then an economic and moral imperative arises.

One might think that the one million women in the American criminal justice system would receive gender-specific services, or that prison programs would target their needs to lower recidivism rates. Department of Corrections to address inequality in prisons Cat Viglienzoni 1 hr ago.

Author information ... Access to medical doctors in prisons and their level of training can also vary among institutions, says Kim Pate, executive director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies. The injustices against Canada’s First Nations people are unfortunately not just historic, as their mistreatment is still evident today.

But for the 199,000 women in U.S. prisons and jails, and the …

In the last few decades, the institutional contours of American social inequality have been transformed by the rapid growth in the prison and jail population.1 America’s prisons and jails have produced a new social group, a group of social outcasts who are joined by the shared experience of incarceration, crime, poverty, racial minority, and low education. Teachers and their unions are expanding the fight for more just communities beyond contract negotiations.