PRISON FARMS IN THE NEWS

Prison Farms Fraught with Problems, Delays, Cost Overruns, and Aimlessness, Frontenac News, December 6, 2023

Working prisoners are entitled to employment and safety standards just like anybody elseThe Conversation, November 24, 2022

Canada’s Last Prison Abattoir Has Closed Amidst Accusations of Human Rights ViolationsAnimal Justice, October 11, 2022

Abattoir at Joyceville Institution now closed, Kingston Whig-Standard, October 10, 2022

‘Bloody bad business’: prison reform advocate calls for Canada’s last prison labour-operated abattoir to finally closeThe Hill Times, September 26, 2022 [Click here for PDF]

Letter to the Editor: Documents tell another side of the storyKingston Whig-Standard, September 13, 2022

Prison farm group critical of Joyceville Institution abattoir, Kingston Whig-Standard, August 30, 2022

Controversy over feds’ plan to use prison labour for goat milk production for export not going away, The Hill Times, June 6, 2022

Correctional Services Canada issues dairy barn tender, Ontario Farmer, December 7, 2021

The truth about CBC’s ‘Prison Farm’, Kingstonist, November 3, 2021

Prison farm abattoir lease will be up at end of September, Ontario Farmer, September 14, 2021

It’s not clear what animals will occupy prison farm barns, Ontario Farmer, August 24, 2021

Prison farm project had much advisory panel guidance, Ontario Farmer, August 17, 2021

Prison Farms: A Correctional Confessional, Geez Magazine, June 28, 2021

Inmate Community Gardens Continue Despite Pandemic, Frontenac News, May 19, 2021

Prison Goat Farm Plans Put On Hold After Public Outcry, Animal Justice, April 27, 2021

Years later, still looking for clarity on Correctional Service Canada’s prison farm plans, The Hill Times, April 12, 2021

CSC should abandon its industrial goat farm fiasco, The Hill Times, April 5, 2021

Stop the Prison Industrial Goat Farm!, Class Action News, Spring 2021

New prison farm plan needed – Letter to the Editor, Kingston Whig-Standard, March 11, 2021

Scandal brewing over feds’ prison farm plan, The Hill Times, March 8, 2021

CSC suspends plans for goat farm at Joyceville Institution, Kingston Whig-Standard, March 5, 2021

Prison Farms Got Your Goat?, Free From Harm, March 5, 2021

Former Inmate, President Of Ontario Goat, Question ‘Prison Farm’ Logic, Frontenac News, March 3, 2021

SPU Researchers Work to Improve Prison Agricultural Programs, St. Paul University News, March 1, 2021

Corrections Canada building goat farm for the prisoners it’s torturing, The Lawyer’s Daily, February 25, 2021

Prison Farms – Letter to the Editor, Frontenac News, February 24, 2021

Prison animal farms are ineffective and unethical, Toronto Star, February 21, 2021

New report questions goat dairy for prison farm, Frontenac News, February 17, 2021

Report finds no evidence in support of prison goat farm, Ontario Farmer, February 16, 2021

Correctional Service Canada’s goat plans won’t help inmates, Kingston Whig-Standard, February 11, 2021

Report suggests alternative to prison goat farming, University of Windsor Daily News, February 3, 2021

The Correctional Service of Canada’s goat plans won’t help inmates, National Post, February 2, 2021

The Correctional Service of Canada’s goat plans won’t help inmates, The Conversation, February 1, 2021

Former dairy farmer watches government at work from his cell, Ontario Farmer, October 13, 2020

Former prisoner has reservations about current project, Ontario Farmer, August 11, 2020

Planned prison farms have goat milk demand issues, Ontario Farmer, August 4, 2020

6 Organizations Working To Change The Way We Think About Prisons, Ezvid Wiki, May 31, 2020

Prison farms in a time of global crisis: Thinking big, starting small, Kingstonist, May 26, 2020

Prison farm program should be broadened to increase prisoner distancing amid COVID-19, advocate argues, The Hill Times, April 22, 2020

Advocacy group says prison farms should grow produce, Kingston Whig-Standard, April 21, 2020

What’s wrong with “Milking prison labour”? Briarpatch Magazine, January 6, 2020

Milking prison labour, Briarpatch Magazine, October 29, 2019

Candidates give food for thought at Eat Think Vote debate, Kingston Whig-Standard, September 24, 2019

Kingston activists not happy with direction prison farms are headed, Radio Canada International, September 11, 2019

Liberals to re-open Kingston prison farms that critics say will exploit inmate labour, APTN National News, August 17, 2019

Kingston’s prison farms officially open once again, Global News, August 15, 2019

Collins Bay Institution farm officially opens, Kingstonist, August 15, 2019

‘The animals set me right’, Kingston Whig-Standard, August 12, 2019

Why this new prison farm is sowing controversy, TVO, July 4, 2019

Milking Justice: Prison Farms Squeezing Profits Out of Prisoners & Animals, Free From Harm, June 28, 2019

Resistance Movement Launches to Stop Prison Factory Farms Program in Canada, VegNews, June 17, 2019

Prison farm properties up and running on limited basis, Kingston Whig-Standard, June 12, 2019

Vigils for ethical prison farms to be held outside Collins Bay Institution, Kingstonist, June 11, 2019

Prison farm supporter worries new Kingston farms may exploit prison labour, Global News, June 7, 2019

Land, Agriculture, and the Carceral: The Territorializing Function of Penitentiary Farms, Radical Philosophy Review, February 2019

“Evolve Our Prison Farms” Activist Calvin Neufeld on Sanctuaries Over Killing, Animal Voices Vancouver, October 19, 2018

Canadian Non-profit Seeks Plant-based Focus, No Animal Slaughter at Prison Farms, Prison Legal News, August 7, 2018

Prison Farm Group Files Complaint, Kingston Whig-Standard, July 31, 2018

Evolve Our Prison Farms launches conflict of interest complaint, Kingston Whig-Standard, July 30, 2018

CFRC Prison Radio Interviews Evolve Our Prison Farms, CFRC 101.9 FM (Queen’s University), July 18, 2018

Prison Rehabilitation Charity Evolve Our Prison Farms Urges Canada to End Inmate Run Dairy Farms, LIVEKINDLY, July 11, 2018

Canadian Prisons Reinstate Inmate-Staffed Dairy Farms, VegNews, June 27, 2018

Jasmin Singer Interviews Evolve Our Prison Farms, Our Hen House, June 23, 2018

Hugh Reilly Interviews Evolve Our Prison FarmsLiquid Lunch (ThatChannel.com), April 2, 2018

Controversy As Canada Invests $4.3 Million In Prisoner-Staffed Animal AgriculturePlant Based News, April 2, 2018

Vegan Non-Profit Fights to Stop Prison-Run SlaughterhousesLIVEKINDLY, April 2, 2018

Save our Prison Farm members betrayed by FedsFrontenac News, March 14, 2018

Prison Farm Plans at Joyceville Raise Eyebrows and Red Flags98.9 The Drive, March 2018

Audio Interview: Canada’s Penitentiary Museum oral history project, January 17, 2018 (recorded August 2017)

March supports new prison visionKingston Whig-Standard, December 11, 2017

When the liberal government restores prison farms, a Kingston-based group wants to see some major changesCBC Radio, November 14, 2017

New prison farm should be animal sanctuary: GroupKingston Whig-Standard, November 13, 2017

Evolving Canada’s Prison FarmsCFRC 101.9FM, May 11, 2017 (published June 4, 2017)

Plant-based prison farm worth exploringKingston Whig-Standard, May 19, 2017

The Herd at the Pen: The promise of animal sanctuary on prison farmsBriarpatch Magazine, May 1, 2017