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Down Inside - Thirty Years in Canada's Prison Service (Paperback)
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Down Inside - Thirty Years in Canada's Prison Service (Paperback)
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Loot Price R514
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A compelling personal memoir and a scathing indictment of
bureaucratic indifference and agenda-driven government policies.In
his thirty years in the Canadian prison system, Robert Clark rose
from student volunteer to deputy warden. He worked with some of
Canada's most dangerous and notorious prisoners, including Paul
Bernardo and Tyrone Conn. He dealt with escapes, lockdowns,
prisoner murders, prisoner suicides, and a riot. But he also
arranged ice-hockey games in a maximum-security institution, sat in
a darkened gym watching movies with three hundred inmates, took
parolees sightseeing, and consoled victims of violent crimes. He
has managed cellblocks, been a parole officer, and investigated
staff corruption. Clark takes readers down inside a range of
prisons, from the minimum-security Pittsburgh Institution to the
Kingston Regional Treatment Centre for mentally ill prisoners and
the notorious (and now closed) maximum-security Kingston
Penitentiary. In Down Inside, he challenges head-on the popular
belief that a "tough-on-crime" approach makes prisons and
communities safer, arguing instead for humane treatment and
rehabilitation. Wading into the controversy about long-term
solitary confinement, Clark draws from his own experience managing
solitary-confinement units to continue the discussion begun by the
headline-making Ashley Smith case and to join the chorus of voices
calling for an end to the abuse of solitary confinement in Canadian
prisons.
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