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Con Game: The Truth About Canada's Prisons |
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| Format | Softcover | |
| Catalogue No. | 0-7710-3962-X | |
| Pages | 375 | |
| Language | English only | |
| Price | $34.99 | |
Written by Michael Harris. Published by McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 2003. Description: |
| Michael Harris’s book about life inside prison is
hard-hitting, hair-raising, and certain to be hugely controversial. Con
Game shows us that Canadian penitentiaries are effectively run by their
inmates. Behind bars, gangs control the booming drug trade and mete out their
own rough justice to inmates who break their rules. Guards sit by, prevented
from interfering by a succession of court rulings that have limited their
authority. Wardens and bureaucrats at Corrections Canada, intent on keeping
their desks clean, allow prison murders to be written off as suicides.
In this sorry state of affairs, too many people in charge of the corrections system are happy to see inmates kept quiet by illegal narcotics; too many are fudging the figures on recidivism; too many are doing nothing to break up the violent social order that prisoners have formed behind the high walls and razor wires that separates “them” from “us.” Most Canadians know very little about our prisons and have no idea how they function. Michael Harris believes that the top levels of bureaucrats have systematically concealed what is really going on. As a result of his investigations, the truth is now out – and our penal system may never be the same. "The book's strongest point is Harris's determination to present all sides of the Canadian prison story by drawing out the opinions of bureaucrats, prisoners and guards. Con Game will interest anyone who follows social issues, and those looking for a reform-minded take on the Canadian prison system." – Paul Challen, reviewed in Quill and Quire "Michael Harris ventured behind the high walls and razor wire of a number of very tough and dangerous federal penitentiaries to get at the truth about Canada's prisons. What he came away with can best be described as an explosive one-man royal commission into the nation's grossly mismanaged prison system." – Victor Malarek, reviewed in Globe and MailOriginally published in 2002. Reprinted in a softcover edition, with a new epilogue in 2003. |
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