A research project exploring food and food systems as sites of contestation within federal prisons in Canada.
Check-out our latest op-ed in the Ottawa Citizen, discussing the Ontario government’s plan to convert a portion of the former Kemptville College farm into a new prison. Read the piece …
A group of food scholars across Canada have signed an open letter calling on Ontario Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Lisa Thompson, to stop a proposed land transfer …
CAPP (Coalition Against the Proposed Prison) is a community campaign based in Kemptville organizing to prevent the construction of a new 235-bed provisional prison. The proposed site was previously home …
Evolve Our Prison Farms released a report in August 2021 detailing numerous problems with the Joyceville Abattoir. The report contends that both incarcerated individuals and animals are being harmed in …
Food is Prisons is downright rotten! People incarcerated in federal prisons in Canada and their advocates have long complained about the quality of food behind bars. In 2014, Correctional Services …
In collaboration with Evolve our Prison Farms and Professor Amy Fitzgerald we’ve co-authored a new report examining the flawed plan put forward by Correctional Services Canada to re-open the prison …