Choosing Real Safety
Choosing Real Safety: A Historic Declaration to Divest from Policing and Prisons and Build Safer Communities for All. Please sign and share widely. We can choose to build safe communities! We are living through a [...]
COVID-19 is currently out of control in several prisons across the country and prisoners are currently facing life-threatening circumstances in institutions that have been infected with it. On top of that, prisoners are being subjected […]
We are outraged in the wake of major COVID-19 outbreaks at Toronto South Detention Centre (TSDC) and Joyceville Institution in Kingston. Despite the calls to reduce the prison population, the Ministry has been ignoring public […]
People imprisoned at Joyceville Institution issue statement seeking access to information about CSC’s outbreak plan and supplies to get through the crisis. 19 December 2020 – Since the lockdown began, there’s been no information coming […]
CPEP recently organized and conducted the Canvassing to #DefundOPS Campaign. We volunteered 120 hours and knocked on more than 600 doors across Ottawa. We were greeted by many residents in wards 7 Bay (@tm_kavanagh), 11 […]
11 December 2020 (unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin Territory) – Yesterday, members of the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project (CPEP) marked the two-year anniversary of the Jail Accountability & Information Line (JAIL). Since its launch on […]
Kemptville’s Coalition Against the Proposed Prison (CAPP) finished an amazing info session about the proposed prison in Kemptville (slated to be finished by 2027) and heard from experts in the field of incarceration, prison abolition, […]
2 December 2020 (Algonquin Territory/Ottawa) – The Coalition Against More Surveillance (CAMS) and the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project (CPEP) condemn the Ontario government’s decision to fund the expansion of Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) systems across […]
Join the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project for No Cops! No Jails! Holiday Trivia Night. This virtual Holiday Trivia Night is a fundraiser for the Jail Accountability & Information Line. Register for the event here: […]
This week, CPEP has officially joined the Defund.ca Ottawa chapter. Defund.ca links cities from all over Canada together in an effort to get their municipalities to stop funding the police and start funding social supports […]
TRAINING EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 4TH! On December 9th, the Ottawa City Council will meet to consider and approve the 2021 Ottawa Police Services budget and it might be our last opportunity to convince them to […]
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