Insight Initiative
Related Articles:
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Polk County inmates can watch movies, play games, and access certain websites on new tablets (2017)
Roger Bretz Jr. sat tapping on a tablet Friday morning inside the Polk County Jail, quietly passing the time playing a car racing video game. Between his shifts in the jail kitchen, Bretz, 55, pays 5 cents a minute to use one of the six tablets available to the 64 inmates living in his cell block. He can read news articles, watch movies, play games, take online classes or — most importantly to Bretz — stay in better touch with his loved ones on the outside.
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Give prisoners internet access for education and rehabilitation (2016)
The reflexive and illogical ban on internet use by prisoners makes society less safe, damages families and is another appalling example of the gratuitous suffering we inflict on prisoners. It also highlights the primitive manner in which we continue to sentence offenders, almost totally divorced from normative and empirical learning. Governments should immediately legislate to provide inmates with full and unfettered (albeit monitored) access to the internet.
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CRTC declares broadband internet access a basic service (2016)
The CRTC has declared broadband internet a basic telecommunications service. In a ruling handed down Wednesday, the national regulator ordered the country's internet providers to begin working toward boosting internet service and speeds in rural and isolated areas.
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Screens behind bars - Technology in Prison (2016)
IN THE corner of a fluorescent-lit room at HMP Wayland, a low-security prison in the east of England, a small team of prison staff records interviews against a makeshift green wall. They are part of the prison’s new media centre. This year Wayland will become the first public prison to take part in a government-funded programme to improve rehabilitation by using technology throughout the jail. The pilot will allow inmates to take courses and access other online resources.
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The case for Internet access in prisons (2015)
As the Internet becomes an inescapable part of our daily lives, it becomes increasingly harder to imagine life without it. For the hundreds of thousands of convicts released from prison every year, though, this is an ongoing struggle: The astonishing pace of technology can make the adjustment back to civilian life all that more difficult.
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Digitised cells a future lock-in for prisons (2014)
In a digitised future for prisons, inmates could spend the 18 hours-a-day they are locked in their cells undertaking online rehabilitation therapy, doing a TAFE courses online or Skyping their families, rather than watching mind-numbing daytime television, or scoring drugs.
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Access to Information & Privacy (ATIP) Request:
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Abridged Business Case (A-2017-00246 Part 1)
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Business Case - Inmate Computing Initiative - 2009 (A-2017-00246 Part 2)
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Business Case - Inmate Computing Initiative - 2010 (A-2017-00246 Part 3)
Letters to Government:
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June 22nd, 2017List Item 1
Letter from The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
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June 2nd, 2017List Item 2
Letter to The Honourable Elizabeth May, MP
The Honourable Tom Mulcair, MP
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June 1st, 2017List Item 3
Letter to The Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
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May 10th, 2017
Combined Letter from The Honourable Ralph Goodale, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
Mr.Don Head, Commissioner of the Correctional Service of Canada
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March 12th, 2017
Letter to The Honourable Ralph Goodale, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
Mr.Don Head, Commissioner of the Correctional Service of Canada
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February 22nd, 2017
Letter from Mr.Don Head, Commissioner of the Correctional Service of Canada
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December 1st, 2016
Letter to The Honourable Ralph Goodale, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
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November 23rd, 2016
Combined letter from The Honourable Ralph Goodale, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
Mr.Don Head, Commissioner of the Correctional Service of Canada
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October 5th, 2016
Letter to The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
The Honourable Ralph Goodale, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
Mr.Don Head, Commissioner of the Correctional Service of Canada
Studies & Journal Articles:
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Right to Internet access From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaList Item 1
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A brave new world: The problems and opportunities presented by new media technologies in prisons (2016)List Item 2
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(B)Locked Sites: Cases of Internet Use in 3 British Prisons (2016)List Item 3
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Collaborative learning in environments with restricted access to the internet: Policies to bridge the digital divide and exclusion in prisons through the development of the skills of inmates (2015)List Item 4
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Prisoners and Their Access to the Internet in the Pursuit of Education (2014)
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Through the Gateway: How Computers Can Transform Rehabilitation (2013)
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue (2011)
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‘Cavemen in an Era of Speed-of-Light Technology’: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Communication within Prisons (2009)
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PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT - The right to education of persons in detention (2009)
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International Mechanisms for Promoting Freedom of Expression (2006)
