It’s Your Job to Save Me: The Union of Canadian Correctional Officers and the Death of Ashley Smith

Autor:	Gillian Balfour
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Government Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Review Committees Public policy Legal history State (polity) Work (electrical) Service (economics) Law Trade union 050501 criminology Sociology 0505 law media_common
Zdroj:	Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société. 32:209-228
ISSN:	1911-0227 0829-3201
DOI:	10.1017/cls.2017.13
Popis:	The death of Ashley Smith represents the first time in Canadian legal history that correctional officers were criminally charged in the death of a prisoner under the care of the state. In response to these unprecedented charges, the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers (UCCO) mounted a highly public campaign in defense of the officers. In this article, I review UCCO’s media statements following Smith’s death, submissions to various government review committees, and the current Global Agreement between UCCO and Correctional Service Canada (CSC) regarding federally sentenced women. I suggest these narratives work to reproduce administrative segregation as necessary to manage “troubled young women” who are constituted as an unsafe working condition for officers. I highlight the failure of UCCO to influence government policy, unlike the effective success of unions in the United States, and I challenge the place of UCCO in Canada’s trade union movement.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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