In this episode of “Unpacking the News,” host Andre Goulet talks to Pivot Legal Society’s Meenakshi Mannoe (Vancouver Prison Justice Day Committee) and Montreal academic and activist Ted Rutland (The Anti-Carceral Group). They discuss decarceration in Canada, abolition and the past, present and future of Prison Justice in an era of COVID-19.
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