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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Main Author: Greg McElligott
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Brock University 2017-02-01
Series:Studies in Social Justice
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Online Access:https://brock.scholarsportal.info/journals/SSJ/article/view/1246