PRISON FARMS IN THE NEWS
Kingston-area politicians, farmers look to Joyceville in wake of abattoir fire, Kingston Whig-Standard, August 1, 2024
Letter to the Editor: Abattoir Problems (Re: Quinn’s Meats), Frontenac News, July 10, 2024
Prison-reform advocate calls on feds to permanently kill the Joyceville slaughterhouse, The Hill Times, May 28, 2024
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 else, The Conversation, November 24, 2022
Canada’s Last Prison Abattoir Has Closed Amidst Accusations of Human Rights Violations, Animal 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 close, The Hill Times, September 26, 2022
Letter to the Editor: Documents tell another side of the story, Kingston 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 Farms, Liquid Lunch (ThatChannel.com), April 2, 2018
Controversy As Canada Invests $4.3 Million In Prisoner-Staffed Animal Agriculture, Plant Based News, April 2, 2018
Vegan Non-Profit Fights to Stop Prison-Run Slaughterhouses, LIVEKINDLY, April 2, 2018
Save our Prison Farm members betrayed by Feds, Frontenac News, March 14, 2018
Prison Farm Plans at Joyceville Raise Eyebrows and Red Flags, 98.9 The Drive, March 2018
Audio Interview: Canada’s Penitentiary Museum oral history project, January 17, 2018 (recorded August 2017)
March supports new prison vision, Kingston Whig-Standard, December 11, 2017
When the liberal government restores prison farms, a Kingston-based group wants to see some major changes, CBC Radio, November 14, 2017
New prison farm should be animal sanctuary: Group, Kingston Whig-Standard, November 13, 2017
Evolving Canada’s Prison Farms, CFRC 101.9FM, May 11, 2017 (published June 4, 2017)
Plant-based prison farm worth exploring, Kingston Whig-Standard, May 19, 2017
The Herd at the Pen: The promise of animal sanctuary on prison farms, Briarpatch Magazine, May 1, 2017