Voices from inside: COVID-19 in Canada's prisons

Program Title: Voices from inside: COVID-19 in Canada's prisons
Description: For weeks, inmates, correctional officers and penal reform advocates have been sounding the alarm that Canada's prisons are sorely underprepared for the arrival of COVID-19. Canada's Chief Public Health Officer, Dr Theresa Tam, has called correctional facilities a "high-risk setting" in which a mass infection could have grave consequences. And there are now 3 inmates 18 employees in federal institutions who have tested positive for COVID-19, joined by an inmate and a guard at the Toronto South Detention Centre also struck by the novel coronavirus. On today's Front Burner, freelance reporter Justin Ling walks us through the ways in which the government can stave off a prison outbreak, protecting both inmates and society at large.

Host(s): Jaime Poisson
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