TY - BOOK ID - 78139343 TI - Human on the Inside : unlocking the truth about Canada's prisons PY - 2014 SN - 0889773777 9780889773783 0889773785 9780889773776 9780889773769 0889773769 PB - Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, DB - UniCat KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Prisons KW - Mennonite Central Committee, M2W2, midlife, prison, memoir. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78139343 AB - In Human on the Inside Gary Garrison takes readers out of their comfort zones and into some of Canada's most notorious and violent prisons, introducing us to a menacing yet vibrant subculture of inmates, guards, and staff. Through personal stories, Garrison illuminates a criminal justice system that ignores poverty, racism, mental illness, and addiction and deals instead with society's problems with razor wire and harsh treatment. It is a system that degrades the individual and sees inmates as less than human. Providing a counterbalance to fear-mongering about criminals, he argues that a dehumanizing system generates more crime, not less, and perpetuates another injustice, this time committed on behalf of all Canadians. ER -