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ââDisgustingâ: 72% of Alberta inmates havenât been convicted of crimes â the highest proportion in Canada.â 20 June 2018.
â70 per cent of prisoners in Alberta are in remand, the highest in Canada.â 13 May 2019.
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Excerpt [Short. âIndigenous inmates make up 45 per cent of all people in Albertaâs federal prisons.â Edmonton Journal. 22 January 2020]: The latest federal data released Tuesday [January 2020] by Dr. Ivan Zinger, Correctional Investigator of Canada (CSC), states the âIndigenizationâ of the federal system has hit a record high with 30 per cent of all inmates serving a federal sentence identifying as Indigenous. He expects that number to climb to 33 per cent in the next three years. Indigenous incarceration rates among the eight federal prisons and three healing lodges in Alberta, including the Edmonton Institution and Edmonton Womenâs Institution, are even higher, sitting at 45 per cent. Fifty-eight per cent of the inmates at the Edmonton Institution and 65 per cent of woman at the local female institution are Indigenous. âI donât think thereâs a person alive in Canada that hasnât heard thereâs over-representation,â said Chris Hay, executive director of the John Howard Society of Edmonton. âAnd yet, in the last 25 years, the problemâs actually gotten worse. It hasnât gotten better with all this knowledge and royal commissions, commissioned by the government, it hasnât even stayed the same, itâs actually gotten worse for Indigenous persons.â
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âA typical cell at the Edmonton Remand Center.â
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âAlberta prisoners made 67 allegations of sexual assault in the last five fiscal years; Only one resulted in a criminal charge.â 7 November 2018.
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Built in 1979, the Edmonton Remand Centre, was meant to contain 380 prisoners, but nearing the end of its time, before the new super remand was built, it was containing over 800 people in custody, almost 3 times more than its original capacity (Wikipedia, Edmonton Remand Centre). The prisoners were, âdouble- or triple-bunked, housed in a violent pressure cookerâ (Jonny Wakefield, Edmonton Journal, April 15th 2018). From the very beginning, there have been accounts of prisoners resisting the oppressive conditions of the Edmonton Remand Centre. [âŚ]
The  government response to the awful conditions and overcrowding was to build a  $580-million new Remand Centre [opened 2013] that could contain almost 2000 people (Jonny Wakefield, Edmonton Journal, April 15th 2018). [J.K.], who spent 15 months at the Edmonton Remand stated âIt doesnât matter if they made 1,800 beds or 3,000 beds, they would have found a way to fill it.â (Jonny Wakefield, Edmonton Journal, April 12th 2019).
Alongside this new expansion came the same oppressive conditions and prisoner resistance. On January 8th 2018, 55 men went on a several day hunger strike at the Edmonton Remand Centre, to protest guard brutality and increased lock down time. [C.G.], a prisoner at the Remand, reported that, âThey do a lot of foul stuff to us. They bring their anger to work and they take it out on us⌠Theyâre still using way too excessive force on inmates. People are sick of thisâ (Stephanie Dubois, Edmonton Journal, January 8th 2018). It was reported that the hunger strike ended as a result of ongoing communication between Remand staff and prisoners [âŚ] However, [T.C.], a prisoner who was a part of the hunger strike, reported that he had seen none of their concerns be addressed, such as asking for the release of a prisoner being held in the maximum security pod for over a year, the lockdowns of certain pods for more than 20 hours a day and looking into the excessive force by the guards (Jonny Wakefield, Edmonton Journal, February 2nd 2018). Alberta Justice, called the hunger strike ânon-complianceâ and justified the actions of the Remand Centre, to segregate the prisoners for 23 hours a day, take away their clothes, and confiscate their canteen items [âŚ].
Again, In July of 2018, 200 men went on a hunger strike in response to a two day lockdown that occurred after two men had overdosed in their cells, including one man who died (Angela Jung, CTV NEWS, July 25th 2018). The men were protesting the increasing time in lockdown. [D.R.] commented on the up to 23 hour a day lockdown conditions, saying that, âWeâre out of our cells for one hour, three or four times. The maximum weâre out of our cells for is five times a dayâ (Stephanie Dubois, CBC News, July 23rd 2018)
This text excerpt from: Saskatchewan-Manitoba-Alberta Abolition Coalition. âHunger strikes against mistreatment at Edmonton Remand.â 5 August 2020.
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âMy privilege will try to make me complicit by default.â
This really hit home, so Iâm posting it for others to see.
Source:Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fukTk8gJ3M
[Image description: A photoset of a white vlogger in front of a bookshelf filled with DVDs, with the captions:Â "How is it my responsibility, or even my place, to apologize for the actions of my ancestors? Because they did it in my name. They did it for the prosperity of their descendants. But I donât want any benefits conferred through slavery. I know itâs impossible for me to shed every single advantage that my ancestry affords me, but the least I could do is examine it. Be critical of it, to be as proactive as possible when it comes to the whole ânot being complicit in historical atrocitiesâ thing. As a person of considerable privilege, I consider it my responsibility because my privilege will try to make me complicit by default.â]
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This thread is a few years old but it bears repeating. Iâm tired of being treated as if I am invisible. Listen to Jewish voices when we talk about fascism. I am begging you.
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Paper has 6 sides, yet we can only use 2 of them effectively.
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Hello welcome my ADHD themed gameshow, "So you were holding it literally moments ago but now it's gone" the where YOU look for whatever you were just holding while going increasingly mad
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minecraft villager: hrnâŚ
everybody out loud: hrn..
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If you guys have ADD/ADHD, autism, OCD, or something else that affects your ability to concentrate, I highly recommend the chrome extension Mercury Reader. You just open whatever link you're using, then click on the MR icon (it should look like a rocket) and it'll simplify the page so that it's in a focus-friendly layout. Instead of having random pictures and word boxes all over the screen, it'll be in a vertical format with nothing to distract you so you can focus on what's important. You can also adjust the text size (small, medium, large), font (serif, sans), and theme (light, dark). And the best part is, it's completely free! It's honestly one of the best things I've ever downloaded.
This is an article without the extension. See that messy format, and how the actual article content only takes up a fraction of the page? It's no wonder it took me 7 hours to write that paper.
The same article, this time with Mercury. The user-friendly settings are at the top, and the rest of the article is formatted vertically down the middle with no free-roaming pictures or words. How nice.
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