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The Life Sentences of Rik McWhinney (Paperback)
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The Life Sentences of Rik McWhinney (Paperback)
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Through poetry, letters, essays, and interviews, The Life Sentences
of Rik McWhinney relates the harrowing experiences of a man who
spent nearly thirty-five years in the Canadian prison system. Rik
McWhinney spent thirty-four years and four months in Canada's
federal penitentiaries-sixteen of those in solitary confinement.
His incarceration began in the 1970s, as a system-wide war was
raging over the implementation of penal reforms. Though he was
physically confrontational during the early years of his
imprisonment, resulting in his segregation and medical torture,
McWhinney eventually turned to writing to combat the conditions of
his confinement. The Life Sentences of Rik McWhinney collects his
poetry, essays, grievance forms, letters, and interviews to provide
readers with insight into the everyday life of incarcerated
individuals, amplifying the lives and voices of a demographic that
society would rather ignore. McWhinney relays the horrors of
solitary confinement and provides a vivid account of the violence
and psychological turmoil that he endured while incarcerated.
Ultimately, McWhinney's words are an indictment of the prison
system, a system that institutionalizes individuals, subjecting
them to an environment that manufactures post-traumatic stress
rather than fulfilling its mission of rehabilitation and reform.
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