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Hold the phone on accepting Bell Let’s Talk at face value

Written on February 13, 2020. Posted in Editorials.

If a company touts its success starting conversations about mental health, it should ensure its other, quieter initiatives don’t simultaneously undo that good work. This is the case with Bell Canada’s most recognized corporate social responsibility (CSR) campaign. Bell Let’s Talk is an awareness...

Former Queen’s students sentenced to three years in prison for robbery

Written on March 22, 2019. Posted in News.

On Feb. 18, 2018, two Queen’s students committed a violent robbery a block away from McBurney Park—changing the course of their careers as students. Andras Orioli and Nicholas Kapogines entered the Kingston residence armed with a crowbar and pepper spray. Upon attacking one housemate with pepper...

Look past the prison, to the person

Written on December 1, 2016. Posted in Editorials.

While it’s not wrong to be interested in the corrections field, our interest often wrongly stems from a romanticizing of prisons with little genuine regard for inmates and their personal lives and experiences. In my second year at Queen’s, I joined a club that allowed me to tutor an inmate for a...

New Queen’s Legal Aid bail program reduces overcrowding in Quinte Detention Centre

Written on October 25, 2016. Posted in News.

Quinte Detention Centre in Napanee, Ontario has the capacity to hold 19 women in its cells. When Jodie-Lee Primeau, Queen’s Legal Aid Review Counsel, first visited the prison, 29 women were being detained there. The women were “triple-bunked”, meaning in each cell, two women shared a bunk bed, while...

Transgender minister and former prison chaplain arrive on campus

Written on September 25, 2015. Posted in News.

Queen’s has hired two new staff for the Chaplain’s office, which the chaplain says will help address the complex religious and spiritual identities in the student body. Minister Ruth Wood and Chaplain Steve Hoeppner were recently hired to join the Interfaith Chaplain Kate Johnson and Imam Yasin Dwyer. Minister...

Educate to rehabilitate

Written on September 22, 2015. Posted in Editorials.

Education shouldn’t be a last ditch effort to save someone from a life of crime — it should be the very first step. In a storyline worthy of Hollywood, three inmates of a maximum-security facility in New York debated their way to victory over Harvard College undergrads on Friday, Sept. 18. The inmates...

Inside story

Written on October 4, 2013. Posted in Features.

May 7, 1999 was an unusual day for Monty Bourke. Bourke, the Warden at Kingston Penitentiary (KP) at the time, was notified early that morning of a line hanging over the prison’s wall. It looked like an inmate had escaped overnight, he was told, and he immediately had an idea of who it might be. “I...

A prison of the past

Written on October 12, 2012. Posted in Features.

Within the span of 86 years, seven prisoners met their grisly fate just steps from campus. Behind the Frontenac County Court House, located on the north edge of City Park, once stood the gallows of the City’s Court House and jail. Any inmate sentenced to death in Kingston was taken to the Frontenac...

Radio reaches out to Kingston prisoners

Written on January 13, 2012. Posted in Features.

“You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave,” echoed in seven Kingston-area prisons over the holidays, after an anonymous caller dedicated the Eagles’ “Hotel California” to those spending time behind bars. Song requests, voice messages and letters were broadcast on-request during...

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Hold the phone on accepting Bell Let’s Talk at face value

Former Queen’s students sentenced to three years in prison for robbery

Look past the prison, to the person

New Queen’s Legal Aid bail program reduces overcrowding in Quinte Detention Centre

Transgender minister and former prison chaplain arrive on campus

Educate to rehabilitate

Inside story

A prison of the past

Radio reaches out to Kingston prisoners

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