This webinar was hosted by YouthREX.

Young people with incarcerated family are often invisible or ignored, but the very real impacts of the criminal justice system on their lives – and the stigma they experience – affect their wellbeing, their sense of self and belonging, and their future aspirations.

Canadian immigration detention is used to control migration and to facilitate the removal, deportation and exclusion of unwanted and illegalized migrants. While the Canadian government has advanced efforts to create alternatives to immigration detention, it is also building new detention centers, maintaining the use of provincial prisons, and continuing to sanction migrants to indefinite detention.

What types of education programs are available to prisoners in Canada? What are some of the critiques of these programs? What can we learn from the education policies and programs available to prisoners in the United States?

Despite extensive critique calling for greater acknowledgement of intersectionality, the LGBTQ community in North America continues to foster a White, upper- and middle-class, gender-normative culture. Media discourse has perpetuated these narratives by downplaying the racism inherent in events centring homophobic violence against racialized LBGTQ people.