“‘Disgusting’: 72% of Alberta inmates haven’t been convicted of crimes – the highest proportion in Canada.” 20 June 2018.
“70 per cent of prisoners in Alberta are in remand, the highest in Canada.” 13 May 2019.
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Excerpt [Short. “Indigenous inmates make up 45 per cent of all people in Alberta’s federal prisons.” Edmonton Journal. 22 January 2020]: The latest federal data released Tuesday [January 2020] by Dr. Ivan Zinger,
Correctional Investigator of Canada (CSC), states the “Indigenization”
of the federal system has hit a record high with 30 per cent of all
inmates serving a federal sentence identifying as Indigenous. He expects
that number to climb to 33 per cent in the next three years.
Indigenous incarceration rates among the eight federal prisons and three
healing lodges in Alberta, including the Edmonton Institution and
Edmonton Women’s Institution, are even higher, sitting at 45 per cent.
Fifty-eight per cent of the inmates at the Edmonton Institution and 65
per cent of woman at the local female institution are Indigenous.
“I don’t think there’s a person alive in Canada that hasn’t heard there’s
over-representation,” said Chris Hay, executive director of the John
Howard Society of Edmonton. “And yet, in the last 25 years, the
problem’s actually gotten worse. It hasn’t gotten better with all this
knowledge and royal commissions, commissioned by the government, it
hasn’t even stayed the same, it’s actually gotten worse for Indigenous
persons.”
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“A typical cell at the Edmonton Remand Center.”
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“Alberta prisoners made 67 allegations of sexual assault in the last five fiscal years; Only one resulted in a criminal charge.” 7 November 2018.
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Built in 1979, the Edmonton Remand Centre, was meant to contain 380
prisoners, but nearing the end of its time, before the new super remand
was built, it was containing over 800 people in custody, almost 3 times
more than its original capacity (Wikipedia, Edmonton Remand Centre). The
prisoners were, “double- or triple-bunked, housed in a violent pressure
cooker” (Jonny Wakefield, Edmonton Journal, April 15th 2018). From the
very beginning, there have been accounts of prisoners resisting the
oppressive conditions of the Edmonton Remand Centre.
[…]
The government response to the awful conditions and overcrowding was to
build a $580-million new Remand Centre [opened 2013] that could contain almost 2000
people (Jonny Wakefield, Edmonton Journal, April 15th 2018). [J.K.],
who spent 15 months at the Edmonton Remand stated “It doesn’t matter if
they made 1,800 beds or 3,000 beds, they would have found a way to fill
it.” (Jonny Wakefield, Edmonton Journal, April 12th 2019).
Alongside this new expansion came the same oppressive conditions and
prisoner resistance. On January 8th 2018, 55 men went on a several day
hunger strike at the Edmonton Remand Centre, to protest guard brutality
and increased lock down time. [C.G.], a prisoner at the
Remand, reported that, “They do a lot of foul stuff to us. They bring
their anger to work and they take it out on us… They’re still using way
too excessive force on inmates. People are sick of this” (Stephanie
Dubois, Edmonton Journal, January 8th 2018). It was reported that the hunger strike ended as a result of ongoing
communication between Remand staff and prisoners […] However, [T.C.], a prisoner who was a part of the hunger strike, reported
that he had seen none of their concerns be addressed, such as asking for
the release of a prisoner being held in the maximum security pod for
over a year, the lockdowns of certain pods for more than 20 hours a day
and looking into the excessive force by the guards (Jonny Wakefield,
Edmonton Journal, February 2nd 2018). Alberta Justice, called the hunger
strike “non-compliance” and justified the actions of the Remand Centre,
to segregate the prisoners for 23 hours a day, take away their clothes,
and confiscate their canteen items
[…].
Again, In July of 2018, 200 men went on a hunger strike in response to a
two day lockdown that occurred after two men had overdosed in their
cells, including one man who died (Angela Jung, CTV NEWS, July 25th
2018). The men were protesting the increasing time in lockdown. [D.R.] commented on the up to 23 hour a day lockdown conditions,
saying that, “We’re out of our cells for one hour, three or four times.
The maximum we’re out of our cells for is five times a day” (Stephanie
Dubois, CBC News, July 23rd 2018)
This text excerpt from: Saskatchewan-Manitoba-Alberta Abolition Coalition.
“Hunger strikes against mistreatment at Edmonton Remand.” 5 August 2020.
House at the Edge of the Park will be released on Blu-ray
on March 29 via Severin Films. The 1980 exploitation film
includes reversible artwork and a slipcover (pictured
below).
Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust) directs from a script by Gianfranco Clerici (Cannibal Holocaust) and Vincenzo Mannino (The New York Ripper). David Hess, Annie Belle, Christian Borromeo, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, and Marie Claude Joseph star.
The three disc set includes a CD soundtrack composed by Riz Ortolani
(Cannibal Holocaust) and over three hours of new special features, including the feature-length documentary Deodato Holocaust.
House on the Edge of the Park has been newly restored in 4K from the uncut original negative. Special features are listed below.
A school district in Tennessee banned the use of “Maus,” a Pulitzer-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, in its middle school classes, citing the work’s profanity and nudity in a 10-to-0 vote https://t.co/NDdrt5u4J4
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