Appointed: A Canadian Senator Bringing Margins to the Centre

The Wish List Series: A Conversation with Professor Justin Piché

Episode Summary

Note: This episode was recorded in February 2021, and contains references to African Heritage Month. Episode Summary: On this Episode, Senator Kim Pate is joined by Professor Justin Piché. Kim and Justin discuss his prison-related “wish list”, which ranges from limiting the spread of COVID in prisons to long-term and on-going diversion and decarceration measures in Canada. Their conversation also considers what effective community and government response to COVID in prisons and other institutions should look like, ending mass incarceration, and the impact of race, colonialism, gender, class and poverty on these issues. About Justin Piché: Justin Piché, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Director of the Carceral Studies Research Collective at the University of Ottawa. He is Co-managing Editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) published by the University of Ottawa Press, which features peer-reviewed articles written by current and former prisoners. Read his full biography here: https://cdp-hrc.uottawa.ca/en/people/piche-justin-0 Follow Justin Piché on Twitter: https://twitter.com/justinpicheh

Episode Notes

Selected Publications by Professor Piché

  • Mussell, Linda, Kevin Walby and Justin Piché, ‘Can you make it out alive?’ Penal Imaginaries at Forts, Sanitaria, Asylums, and Segregated Schools, Qualitative Criminology, Volume Online First (April 2021) https://www.qualitativecriminology.com/pub/1bk9q4t1/release/1 Open Access
  • Benslimane, Souheil, Sarah Speight, Justin Piché and Aaron Doyle, The Jail Accountability & Information Line: Early Reflections on Praxis, Journal of Law and Social Policy, Volume 33, 111-133 (September 2020) https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1400&context=jlsp Open Access
  • Carrier, Nicolas and Justin Piché, On (In)justice: Undisciplined Abolitionism in Canada, Social Justice, Volume 45, Issue 4, 35-56 (November 2019)

Recent Publications by Senator Pate