Bøger af Jordan House

Volume 31, Number 2 (2022) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons featuring two dialogue sections. The first, featuring pieces on "Prison Labour", is edited by Jordan House (Brock University) and Kelly Struthers Montford (Toronto Metropolitan University). The second, featuring pieces on "Gender, Health and (In)justice in Canada", is edited by Martha Paynter (University of New Brunswick), OmiSoore Dryden (Dalhousie University) and El Jones (Mount Saint Vincent University). The collection also features a preface commemorating the 35th anniversary of the JPP, a Response on the importance of mutual aid following imprisonment, as well as reviews of a film and two books. The cover art was created by Joker (front) and Peter Collins (back).

Prisons dont work, but prisoners do. Prisons are often critiqued as unjust, but we hear little about the daily labour of incarcerated workers what they do, how they do it, who they do it for and under which conditions. Unions protect workers fighting for better pay and against discrimination and occupational health and safety concerns, but prisoners are denied this protection despite being the lowest paid workers with the least choice in what they do the most vulnerable among the working class. Starting from the perspective that work during imprisonment is not rehabilitative this book examines the reasons why people should care about prison labour and how prisoners have struggled to organize for labour power in the past. Unionizing inmate workers is critical for both the labour movement and struggles for prison justice, this book argues to negotiate changes to working conditions as well as the power dynamics within prisons themselves.