Everyday Politics with Laura Mae Lindo
Transformative Justice
A look at the overrepresentation of indigenous and black adults in the Canadian prison system, transformative justice, and the Walls to Bridges program with Dr. Rai Reece.
Additional Resources:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/260114/dq260114b-eng.htm
Articles
Critical Race Theory:Multicultural Disrupter By Dr.Reece
https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/8/3/103
Decolonizing Community Re-entry: Effective Case Studies of Community-Led Programs and Services to Support Formerly Incarcerated Individuals in Canada By Dr.Reece
https://cdspress.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Eizadirad_Reece_Proofs_Final.pdf
Origins of Walls to Bridges Program By Will Sloan
https://www.torontomu.ca/news-events/news/2017/12/breaking-down-walls/
Access to Education Behind Bars
- Blog Post: A right to education for all: Unlocking potential behind bars (https://thelifelonglearningblog.uil.unesco.org/2025/01/24/a-right-to-education-for-all-unlocking-potential-behind-bars/)
- Position Paper - Prisoner Access to Education + Internet (https://bccla.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2019-12-31-Position-Paper-re-Prisoner-Access-to-Education-Internet-final-for-approval.pdf)
- Momentum for Prison Education (https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/11/06/colleges-push-more-resources-support-prison-education-programs)
- Report Shows Benefit of Prison Education (https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/01/16/report-shows-benefit-prison-education)
- Lack of education and training in Canadian prisons (https://johnhoward.ca/blog/lack-of-education-and-training-in-canadian-prisons/)
- The Bard Prison Initiative: Education, Incarceration, and Public Health (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6987918/)
- Bard Prison Initiative https://bpi.bard.edu/)
Websites That Focus on Learning About Abolition:
- Abolitionist Resources (https://abolitionistfutures.com/resources)
- Abolition Resources – thenationalnetwork.com.au (https://thenationalnetwork.com.au/abolition-resources/)
- Abolitionist Toolbox (https://abolitionist.tools/)
- Interrupting Criminalization (https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources)
- Planning for abolition (https://wheretohere.com/planning-for-abolition/)
- Prison Abolition Resource Guide by Micah Herskind
- SURJ Toronto
- Toronto Abolition Convergence. “An Indigenous Abolitionist Study Guide.” Yellowhead Institute, 10 Aug. 2020, https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2020/08/10/an-indigenous-abolitionist-study-group-guide/
- Transformharm.org
- Walls to Bridges
Videos and Documentaries
- College Behind Bars (US) (https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/college-behind-bars-video-gallery/college-behind-bars/kenburnsclassroom/) (Care caution and content warning, discussion of suicide and drug use)
- How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against Imprisonment
- Harm Reduction Organizing and Abolition Politics
Podcast
- Brains behind bars: exploring education in federal prison (https://certificate.queenslaw.ca/podcast/brains-behind-bars-exploring-education-in-federal-prison)
