PASAN is a community-based prisoner health and harm reduction organization that provides support, education and advocacy to prisoners and ex-prisoners across Canada.
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Cell Count Issue #91
The 91st issue of Cell Count focuses on how COVID-19 has impacted prisoners across Canada, touching upon issues such as regulations being put into place in prisons to combat the pandemic, or lack thereof. Prisoners are experiencing fear, anxiety and feelings of worry by the lack of adequate information about the virus or sufficient personal protective equipment. Some of the barriers include little access to soap and water for handwashing, inability to social distance from one another, and correctional officers not wearing masks, just to name a few. Although personal visitations have now been allowed for the time being, “non-essential” staff and services such as library staff, school teachers, Indigenous Elders, volunteers, outside service organizations, program staff and therapists are barred from entering institutions. COVID-19 has exacerbated the issues and barriers prisoners are already facing, and we hope this issue of Cell Count provides some insight into that. Read it here
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