The East Coast Prison Justice Society's latest report highlights life within NS jails

Mainstreet Halifax

The East Coast Prison Justice Society dropped its annual report Tuesday, September 17th. It is a composite based on the analysis of 800 phone calls with people incarcerated in this Province, between September 17, 2022 and August 31, 2023. It's findings also come in the wake of the deaths of six people in provincial custody.

To break down the report and what it mean, host Jeff Douglas spoke with three guests today.

Sheila Wildeman is an prof at Schulich School of Law and Co-Chair of the East Coast Prison Justice Society (ECPJS). El Jones is a poet, professor and activist and Board Member at ECPJS.

And the first voice you'll hear is Laura Beach, the coordinator of the ECPJS Visiting Committee Project.

Laura started by explaining what the visiting committee heard about conditions in provincial carceral institutions in that 2022-2023 time period.