Guest Material: What Happened to Prisoner Justice Day?

This is the first episode in a mini series that was published in Summer 2019. It is about the history of Prisoner Justice Day and the evolution of this day of remembrance and protest since it was started inside prisons in so-called Canada in the 1970s. This mini series had its own podcast feed which has now expired, so we are posting their stuff here. This episode features an interview with Bob Gaucher, who served time in the Prairies as a young adult before becoming an academic in Ottawa.

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The Prison Radio Show has two time slots on CKUT 90.3 fm http://www.ckut.ca.* The first time slot is: On the second Thursday of every month between 5-6 pm the Prison Radio Show is part of CKUT’s Off The Hour. The second time slot is: The fourth Friday of every month between 11am and 12pm. Occasionally the Prison Radio Show will have an additional show during the fifth Friday. All audio on CKUT 90.3 fm is archived for a minimum of two months, so if you miss a show, you can download it at ckut.ca or here on the blog. Prison Radio has been on the air in Montreal for more than a decade. The show seeks to confront the invisibility of prisons and prisoner struggle, by focusing on the roots of incarceration, policing, and criminalization, and by challenging ideas about what prisons are and who ends up inside. Prison Radio is dedicated to programming that is directly collaborative with people who are currently incarcerated. This is in the interest of forging stronger ties between incarcerated and non-incarcerated people, ensuring that prisoners have direct control over their representation, and that our understandings of prisons be informed by those who live inside their walls.