Meara Conway's guest appearances

Meara Conway

Rank & File Radio - Prairie Edition

Charles Smith

Robert Lee

Sean Tucker

Boots Riley

David Bush

Jane McAlevey

Scott Price

Jason Kenney

Dave Clark

Simon Black

James Wilt

Eric Blanc

Emma Jackson

Emily Leedham

Greg Taylor

OwlTail

Katharina Maier

Today on the show we’ll talk prison justice. A nation-wide prison strike in the U.S just concluded last week, from August 21 to September 9. The strike was centered around 10 demands, including an end to unpaid labour, or prison slavery, and increased rehabilitation programs. One provincial prison in Nova Scotia also participated in the form of a peaceful protest.Prison organizing is challenging because incarceration by design isolates prisoners and their conditions from their families, other support networks, and the general public. What would be needed to coordinate a cross-country prison strike here in Canada? Definitely a lot of work and a broader understanding of the colonial justice system, prison labour and living conditions. The two following interviews explore different aspects related to prisoner justice in Canada.Meara Conway attended McGill law school and articled at the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto. Originally from Saskatchewan, she recently returned to her hometown of Regina to work as a staff lawyer for Legal Aid and immediately took up the struggle against chronic under resourcing and mounting cuts to Legal Aid. She is currently Vice-President of her staff’s local, CUPE 1949.Katharina Maier is a faculty member of Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg. She holds a law degree from Germany and completed her PhD in Criminology and Socio-legal Studies at the University of Toronto. Katharina is broadly interested in issues around punishment, incarceration, and prisoner re-entry. Her current research looks at the role of halfway houses and their role in facilitating the transition from prison to community living. One of the goals of her research is to understand what punishment means to people and how it is experienced by criminalized populations.Inmates go on strike to protest pay cuts - October 2013https://www.cbc.ca/news/federal-inmates-go-on-strike-to-protest-pay-cuts-1.1875491Journal of Prisoners on Prisonshttp://www.jpp.org/index.htmlFree Inside: The Life and Work of Peter Collinshttps://squareup.com/store/adastracomix/item/free-inside-the-life-and-work-of-peter-collins

Today on the show we’ll talk prison justice. A nation-wide prison strike in the U.S just concluded last week, from August 21 to September 9. The strike was centered around 10 demands, including an end to unpaid labour, or prison slavery, and increased rehabilitation programs. One provincial prison in Nova Scotia also participated in the form of a peaceful protest. Prison organizing is challenging because incarceration by design isolates prisoners and their conditions from their families, other support networks, and the general public. What would be needed to coordinate a cross-country prison strike here in Canada? Definitely a lot of work and a broader understanding of the colonial justice system, prison labour and living conditions. The two following interviews explore different aspects related to prisoner justice in Canada. Meara Conway attended McGill law school and articled at the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto. Originally from Saskatchewan, she recently returned to her hometown of Regina to work as a staff lawyer for Legal Aid and immediately took up the struggle against chronic under resourcing and mounting cuts to Legal Aid. She is currently Vice-President of her staff’s local, CUPE 1949. Katharina Maier is a faculty member of Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg. She holds a law degree from Germany and completed her PhD in Criminology and Socio-legal Studies at the University of Toronto. Katharina is broadly interested in issues around punishment, incarceration, and prisoner re-entry. Her current research looks at the role of halfway houses and their role in facilitating the transition from prison to community living. One of the goals of her research is to understand what punishment means to people and how it is experienced by criminalized populations. Inmates go on strike to protest pay cuts - October 2013 <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/federal-inmates-go-on-strike-to-protest-pay-cuts-1.1875491" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/federal-inmates-go-on-strike-to-protest-pay-cuts-1.1875491</a> Journal of Prisoners on Prisons <a href="http://www.jpp.org/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.jpp.org/index.html</a> Free Inside: The Life and Work of Peter Collins <a href="https://squareup.com/store/adastracomix/item/free-inside-the-life-and-work-of-peter-collins" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://squareup.com/store/adastracomix/item/free-inside-the-life-and-work-of-peter-collins</a>

Prison Justice: Meara Conway on cuts to Sask Legal Aid & UW's Katharina Maier on prison labour