Conditions at Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre must be fixed

Faculty Member: Aaron Doyle
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Original news source: Ottawa Citizen
Original publication date: December 2, 2013

After years of reported overcrowding, violence and other adverse conditions at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre, academics and other experts are saying enough is enough.

Prompted by a string of “horror stories”, the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project, a co-operative initiative between professors at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, held a forum last week about conditions and practices at the Innes Road jail.

“We need to move from people saying how terrible things are in there to actually doing something about it,” said Carleton sociology and criminology professor Aaron Doyle, who organized the forum.