TY  - BOOK
AU  - Iftene,Adeline
TI  - Punished for Aging: Vulnerability, Rights, and Access to Justice in Canadian Penitentiaries 
SN  - 9781487524289
U1  - 323.3/29270971 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Justice, Administration of
KW  - Canada
KW  - Older prisoners
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Prisons
KW  - Government policy
KW  - LAW / Criminal Law / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Canadian federal correctional system
KW  - Canadian prisons
KW  - aging prisoners
KW  - aging
KW  - courts
KW  - incarceration
KW  - old age
KW  - penitentiaries in Canada
KW  - prison monitoring
KW  - prison oversight
KW  - prison reform
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Preamble: The Actors Enter the Stage --; Chapter One. Some Context: The Canadian Federal Correctional System --; Chapter Two. Age and Health Care Behind Bars --; Chapter Three. Reform for Older Prisoners: Release and Institutional Accommodation --; Chapter Four. Democracy in Action: Implementation of Policy Reform and Prison Oversight --; Chapter Five. Correcting Wrongs and Pushing for Reform through Administrative Boards and Tribunals --; Chapter Six. Correcting Wrongs and Pushing for Reform through Courts --; Chapter Seven. Conclusion --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Built around the experiences of older prisoners, Punished for Aging looks at the challenges individuals face in Canadian penitentiaries and their struggles for justice. Through firsthand accounts and quantitative data drawn from extensive interviews, this book brings forward the experiences of federally incarcerated people living their "golden years" behind bars. These experiences show the limited ability of the system to respond to heightened needs, while also raising questions about how international and national laws and policies are applied, and why they fail to ensure the safety and well-being of incarcerated individuals. In so doing, Adelina Iftene explores the shortcomings of institutional processes, prison-monitoring mechanisms, and legal remedies available in courts and tribunals, which leave prisoners vulnerable to rights abuses. Some of the problems addressed in this book are not new; however, the demographic shift and the increase in people dying in prisons after long, inadequately addressed illnesses, with few release options, adds a renewed sense of urgency to reform. Working from the interview data, contextualized by participants’ lived experiences, and building on previous work, Iftene seeks solutions for such reform, hich would constitute a significant step forward not only in protecting older prisoners, but in consolidating the status of incarcerated individuals as holders of substantive rights
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487514792
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487514792
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487514792/original
ER  -