“Life on the Instalment Plan” describes some of the failings of Corrections Canada and particular policies, and the mistreatment of prisoners like Renee Acoby. It also provides a good background on the establishment of regional prisons like EIFW and what goes on inside. The full article is here.
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Prison Yoga Project
I stumbled across this website some time ago and wanted to share it with the rest of you: http://prisonyoga.com/ I found it about the same time I started taking classes with a yoga instructor by the name of Judy Murphy. She’s had some involvement with prison yoga and has been very active in the field of adult education. She’s currently doing karma yoga (community yoga at no charge) in Northeast Edmonton. I’ve also been aware of workshops she’s facilitated through her organization, Windsound Learning, where she marries body work, adult learning and creative expression with adult learners. I’m going to connect with her this week to talk more about the work going on at EIFW.
Next general committee meeting: Thursday, February 25 2010
The next general meeting of the GELA Prison Library and Reintegration committee will be held: Thursday, February 25th at 5:30 pm at Henderson Hall at the University of Alberta.
For those of you unfamiliar with Henderson Hall – you can access it from the Rutherford South Atrium entrance at the University of Alberta. There is some street metered parking as well as surface lots (rates drop after 4:30 pm)
Agenda items include:
- reports from subcommittees:
- bookclub,
- storybook,
- CLA presentation,
- bookdrive (wish list etc)
- technological literacy for the women
- fundraising ideas
You can read the minutes from the December 2009 meeting here.
See you next week!
Kirsten
GELA Women’s Prison Library and Reintegration Committee: Inmate’s February Wish List
This is the February request list from inmates for book donations for the EIFW library. If you have any of the books on the list (or any questions or comments) email kwurmann@ualberta.ca or tanyadriechel@legalresourcecentre.ca to coordinate a drop off.
WISH LIST
Anne of Green Gables (series)– Lucy Maud Montgomery
Children of the Lamp(series) – P.B. Kerr.
Just Another Indian – Warren Goulding
Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
A Painted House – John Grisham
Pyrates (series) – Chris Archer
Shattered Silence – Melissa G. Moore
Twilight Series (especially Breaking Dawn) – Stephanie Meyer
Type Talk – Janet M. Thuesen and Otto Kroeger
Under the Dome – Stephen King
Anything about (topic)
Aboriginal poetry
Atlas (large world atlas)
Book of quotations
Books on CD (fiction/nonfiction)
Braille
Calming/Inspirational books (with serene pictures
Craft Books – Knitting, quilting, crochet
Crossword puzzle books
Dictionaries
Hobby/ Craft Magazines
Language Instruction (Any languages, esp. Italian and Arabic)
Nutrition
Poetry anthologies
Traditional Aboriginal Medicine
Vietnamese fiction and nonfiction
Wikka/Witchcraft
BOOKS BY:
Ellen Hawkin
S.E Hinton
Alexander Pushkin
OTHER
Current High School- Chemistry, Physics, Biology text books
Donations of books and supplies
Greenwoods has generously donated 25 children’s books for our Storybook Project. Among these are hard cover picture books, board books, and classics–a really great selection. Thank you Greenwoods!
We also received donations of book card pockets in response to a request made on Jerome-L. Thank you to all of our Alberta colleagues for coming through! The card pockets were dropped off to Cathee along with spine labels and label protectors last week.
Incarceration rates of Aboriginal youth inspire campus theatre production
An interesting story on a play about Aboriginal youth in prison.
Banned in Texas
With Freedom to Read Week on the Horizon, this article on censorship in Texas Prisons is quite timely and interesting.
Banned in Texas prisons: books and magazines that many would consider classics
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