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*In 2016, Canada’s crime rates hit a 45-year low. Yet,''' incarceration rates hit an all time high'''.  <ref>http://www.intersectionalanalyst.com/intersectional-analyst/2017/7/20/everything-you-were-never-taught-about-canadas-prison-systems</ref>  
*In 2016, Canada’s crime rates hit a 45-year low. Yet,''' incarceration rates hit an all time high'''.  <ref>http://www.intersectionalanalyst.com/intersectional-analyst/2017/7/20/everything-you-were-never-taught-about-canadas-prison-systems</ref>  
*The majority of people incarcerated in Canada, 60%, are denied bail and incarcerated in advance of their trial. This means''' they are legally innocent.'''  <ref>http://www.intersectionalanalyst.com/intersectional-analyst/2017/7/20/everything-you-were-never-taught-about-canadas-prison-systems</ref>  
*The majority of people incarcerated in Canada, 60%, are denied bail and incarcerated in advance of their trial. This means''' they are legally innocent.'''  <ref>http://www.intersectionalanalyst.com/intersectional-analyst/2017/7/20/everything-you-were-never-taught-about-canadas-prison-systems</ref>  
*Indigenous Peoples are incarcerated '''10x more often than non-Indigenous citizens'''; an example of systemic racism  <ref>https://www.oci-bec.gc.ca/cnt/rpt/oth-aut/oth-aut20121022info-eng.aspx
*Indigenous Peoples are incarcerated '''10x more often than non-Indigenous citizens'''; an example of systemic racism  <ref>https://www.oci-bec.gc.ca/cnt/rpt/oth-aut/oth-aut20121022info-eng.aspx</ref>  
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*Federally sentenced inmates are paid a maximum of $6.90 per day for their labour. '''The average is $3.00 per day for their labour'''. Most is deducted for their basic living essentials such as cleaning products, food and accomodation, access to phones and also to the crown. <ref>https://www.cbc.ca/news/federal-inmates-go-on-strike-to-protest-pay-cuts-1.1875491</ref>
*Federally sentenced inmates are paid a maximum of $6.90 per day for their labour. '''The average is $3.00 per day for their labour'''. Most is deducted for their basic living essentials such as cleaning products, food and accomodation, access to phones and also to the crown.


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Revision as of 02:48, 22 September 2022

The prison industrial complex describes the ways the government and the private sector benefit by using surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as “solutions” to economic, social and political problems; the intertwining of structures that enable profit to be generated from incarceration and, by proxy, continued oppression. - Critical Resistance & the work of Angela Davis, adapted by Michelle Xie [1]



Examples of the Prison Industrial Complex

  • In 2016, Canada’s crime rates hit a 45-year low. Yet, incarceration rates hit an all time high. [2]
  • The majority of people incarcerated in Canada, 60%, are denied bail and incarcerated in advance of their trial. This means they are legally innocent. [3]
  • Indigenous Peoples are incarcerated 10x more often than non-Indigenous citizens; an example of systemic racism [4]
  • Federally sentenced inmates are paid a maximum of $6.90 per day for their labour. The average is $3.00 per day for their labour. Most is deducted for their basic living essentials such as cleaning products, food and accomodation, access to phones and also to the crown. [5]


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