The Correctional Service of Canada’s near-total ban of the internet is counterproductive to efforts to help prisoners get jobs and reduce recidivism. It’s also potentially unconstitutional
This summer, at the Ontario Court of Appeal sitting in Kingston , I watched as a young Indigenous man, wearing handcuffs and leg irons, was escorted over from one of the area’s many local penitentiaries.
At one point, one of the judges asked this man about his future plans – a compassionate way of guiding a self-represented litigant into saying something helpful to his case. He shared that he had been enrolled in college before his incarceration, in an online course in business management. He described being excited to learn about business ethics, and about possibilities for life beyond his difficult social conditions growing up.
At one time, distance education was widely available to prisoners through paper-correspondence programs, which they could access and pay for at their own initiative and expense. But paper-based education by mail, like video and CD stores, could not compete with the internet. The few antiquated paper courses that remain cannot be cobbled together into anything resembling an actualDigital technology has revolutionized how we learn.
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