A Prison Besieged by Mice | The Tyee
Built to keep people in, Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre can’t keep rodents out.
Great reporting by The Tyee about the mice infestation issues at VIRCC and the internal and external advocacy efforts led by incarcerated people.
www.thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...
19.08.2025 15:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Attention social justice and human rights lawyers: PLS is hiring for two positions! Apply by Sept 15, 2025: tinyurl.com/3kbjywpn
12.08.2025 20:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Aug 10, 2025 marks 50 years since the first Prisoners’ Justice Day was observed in 1975, when people incarcerated at Millhaven Inst. organized a work and hunger strike to memorialize the death of Eddie Nalon. PLS mourns all those who have lost their lives to the prison system.
08.08.2025 20:10 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
On June 19, 2025, Prisoners’ Legal Services presented to the BC Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services - read our submission here: tinyurl.com/4vphyn5a
24.06.2025 16:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rhetoric prof and author of Prison Power (2016) and Black Feelings (2020); both from @UPMiss. Editor of #MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist (Routledge).
co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, etc...
Social, economic and environmental justice. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, British Columbia. Reposts are not endorsements.
In-depth, independent reporting to better understand the world, now on Bluesky. News tips? Share them here: http://nyti.ms/2FVHq9v
Transforming the legal landscape. We’re a non-profit org safeguarding the environment with legal strategies that bridge Indigenous and Canadian law. Since 1974 🌱 Visit: wcel.org
We fight against oppression. We stand with social justice activists and communities under threat. We use the power of the law to achieve justice for all. ccrjustice.org
New on here. Author of Policing Black Lives (Fernwood/Duke University Press, 2025) and co-author of Rehearsals for Living (Haymarket 2023). More at www.robynmaynard.com
Community-led responses, human rights, drug user rights, housing rights, evidence matter. My job is with @candrugpolicy views are mine
Equality. Liberty. Freedom. Justice. Fighting for civil liberties and human rights since 1962 through Litigation, Law Reform & Public Legal Education.
bccla.org/donate
Shining light into the darkest corners of the U.S. punishment system. http://solitarywatch.org | Subscribe: http://bit.ly/swdispatch | Support: http://bit.ly/givesw
A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
Using the law as a tool, we challenge unjust legislation, policies & practices that undermine human rights, intensify poverty, and perpetuate stigma.
www.pivotlegal.org
Constitutional law professor @uottawa.bsky.social | Co-Director @uodroitpublaw.bsky.social | Canadian team lead @ucnpproject.bsky.social. Executive branch constitutionalism, rights, interpretation, the unwritten constitution https://macdonnell.substack.com
Law prof at Queen's in Kingston. Criminal law, evidence, sentencing, prisons.
Promoting our blog - johnhoward.ca/category/blog - with more than 250 posts since 2017 on criminal justice issues in Canada.
Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
🔎 🌎 ✊
Exposing human rights abuses around the world.
National health journalist for The Globe and Mail, 🇨🇦’s national newspaper.
Based in Ottawa.
Contact: kkirkup@globeandmail.com.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/kristy-kirkup/
Challenging mass incarceration and over-criminalization through research, advocacy, and organizing. Get email updates: https://prisonpolicy.org/subscribe/
