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DESCRIPTION:There are currently more than 32\,000 people in Canadian prison
 s—institutions firmly entrenched in law\, politics\, and the national imag
 ination. However\, challenges to the legitimacy of imprisonment grow with 
 its lengthening track record of human rights abuses and resistance to the 
 rule of law\, rising awareness of its functional limitations and collatera
 l harms\, and—with Indigenous persons now representing one third of the fe
 deral prison population\, and one half in women’s prisons—its increasingly
  unequal and colonial character. Reform\, these challenges hold\, is not e
 nough.   \n\nThis Roundtable explores what it means to abolish prisons in 
 the Canadian context\, and the corresponding legal\, political\, and deepl
 y personal dimensions of the shift away from imprisonment as a response to
  harms. To do so\, 91µ¼º½ÊÓƵ’s Faculty of Law welcomes three important contri
 butors to the conversations and actions around prison abolition: Debra Par
 kes\, El Jones\, and Justin Piché. Each invitee will offer their insights 
 into challenges and possibilities\, with El Jones performing a selection o
 f her poetry. \n\nSpeakers\n\nDebra Parkes \n\nDebra Parkes is a Professor
  and Chair in Feminist Legal Studies at Allard School of Law\, UBC\, where
  she teaches constitutional law\, prison law\, and feminist legal studies.
  Her scholarly work critically examines criminal and carceral systems and 
 she has published widely on issues related to gender and racial (in)equali
 ty in those systems\, sentencing and punishment practices\, the framing an
 d adjudicating of prisoners’ rights claims\, and abolitionist lawyering.  
  \n\nEl Jones \n\nEl Jones is an award-winning poet\, journalist\, profess
 or and activist. She has served as both Halifax's Poet Laureate and the Na
 ncy’s Chair in Women’s Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University. Her acti
 vism and writing focus on a variety of social justice issues\, including f
 eminism\, prison abolition\, anti-racism and decolonization. Most recently
 \, she has published Abolitionist Intimacies (Fernwood Publishing\, 2022)\
 , a collection of poetry and prose exploring prisons and their abolition t
 hrough the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. \n\nJustin 
 Piché \n\nJustin Piché is an Associate Professor in the Department of Crim
 inology and Director of the Carceral Geography (Col)laboratory at the Univ
 ersity of Ottawa. He is co-editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons a
 nd a member of the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project\, the 
 Abolition Coalition\, the Human Rights Research and Education Centre\, and
  the Carceral Cultures Research Initiative. His newest publications includ
 e Pain in Vain: Penal Abolition and the Legacy of Louk Hulsman (Red Quill 
 Books\, 2023) and How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement (Hayma
 rket Books\, 2024 with Rachel Herzing). \n\nMichel Proulx Memorial Roundta
 ble Fund \n\nThe Roundtable is named after the Honourable Michel Proulx (1
 939-2007)\, who devoted his life to the improvement of the criminal justic
 e system and to the advancement of human rights in Canada. Called to the Q
 uebec Bar in 1963\, he quickly became known as one of the finest criminal 
 lawyers nationwide. In 1989\, he was appointed to the Court of Appeal of Q
 uebec. In 2006\, he was awarded the Prix de la Justice du Québec in light 
 of his devotion to the improvement of justice in Quebec. Michel Proulx tau
 ght both Criminal Procedure and Evidence in Criminal Matters for over twen
 ty years as an adjunct professor at 91µ¼º½ÊÓƵ’s Faculty of Law\, in addition 
 to supporting its international human rights programs\, and providing coun
 sel and encouragement to students\, teachers\, and deans. The Faculty of L
 aw hosts the Michel Proulx Roundtable Conferences in Criminal Law to honou
 r his memory. The 91µ¼º½ÊÓƵ community is grateful to the Proulx family for ma
 king this event possible. \n\n \n
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LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 3644 Peel Street
SUMMARY:The Annual Proulx Roundtable 2024 | Prison Abolition in Canada: Abo
 litionist Lawyering\, Activism\, and Intimacies 
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