PRISONERS JUSTICE DAY

Speakers, performances, vigil
August 10th, 2010 6:30-9pm
Don Jail (550 Gerrard St E.)

What is Prisoners' Justice Day?

It is a day of protest against all deaths in custody, the inhumane use of solitary confinement, racist policing, the detention and deportation of immigrants and refugees, the taking of land through colonization and the criminalization of First Nations defence of their territories, the denial of justice for Aboriginal women and transpeople, the disabling effects of prison, the cruelty of psychiatric incarceration, poverty and homelessness, the separation of families, security certificates, tasers for prison guards and cops, the medical neglect of prisoners with HIV/AIDS, the incarceration of people who use drugs, the incarceration of sex workers and the lack of harm reduction in prison.

It is a call for alternatives to incarceration - at a time when governments are enacting repressive U.S. style get-tough-on-crime laws to build more prisons despite a falling crime rate. Join us for speakers, performers and a candlelight vigil at dusk when we read the names of prisoners who have died.