Invested in Prisons: Prison Expansion and Community Development in Canada
This paper critically examines the claim made by Canadian Conservative politicians that prison expansion is likely to produce economic gains for Canadian prison towns. Such claims raise many questions about the actual beneficiaries of prison construction, and the depiction of prisons as “infrastruct...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Brock University
2017-02-01
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Series: | Studies in Social Justice |
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Online Access: | https://brock.scholarsportal.info/journals/SSJ/article/view/1246 |