In his opening to a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation special program On prisons in Canada (1) over a year ago, senior correspondent Brian Stewart noted: "There's nothing government does that is harder to get right than a prison system." Few people would disagree with this statement. Criminal justice advocates from across the political spectrum have argued their respective positions on the relative leniency or harshness of sentences of confinement since this particular form of punishment became dominant about two hundred years ago. (2)

Michael Harris's recent book Con Game opens with the claim that "Canada's prison system is in crisis." The March, 2002 release of Con ...

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