#EvolveOurPrisonFarms Opposing exploitation.
Kingston, Ontario
Joined March 2018
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Prisoners across Canada are producing goods for crown corporations and more recently, for public consumption. Experts warn the true cost of this labour goes far beyond dollars, raising difficult questions about dignity, rehabilitation and justice.
APTN Investigates: Fields of Confinement | By Brittany Guyot - Airing Saturday, October 25, 2025
Published: Tell-all investigative report on reopened prison farms in Kingston, ON. Includes "smoking gun" plan to use CDN prison labour to supply goat milk for Chinese infant formula. Shockingly, that's only the beginning of what's wrong with this story. evolveourprisonfarms.ca/pris…
A good article about the closure of the Joyceville prison slaughterhouse and the problems of prison labour in Canada. theconversation.com/working-…
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The last remaining prison slaughterhouse in Canada is now CLOSED! 🚫
The news comes following years of campaigning by @EvolveOPF, who recently highlighted the facility’s alleged human rights violations & questionable inspection practices in a report.
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Joyceville Institution abattoir now closed but industry wants to keep prisoners in the killing business because farmers are "in a dither" without cheap prison labour. Is there no shame? Society has turned a blind eye to this for too long.
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JOYCEVILLE ABATTOIR HAS CLOSED! Corrections Canada @CSC_SCC_en has not renewed its contract w/ Wallace Beef & all slaughter has ceased. Prisoners are no longer killing for the meat industry. Evolve's investigation shut down 🇨🇦's last prison slaughterhouse: bit.ly/3Ry2TpC
PTM: "It’s an age-old debate: what’s the best way to reform prisoners, and prepare them to re-integrate into society? If 'slaughtering animals repeatedly' wasn’t on your Bingo card, you’re not alone. Stuart Benson @TheHillTimes has the latest on the govt's inmate-run abattoir."
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Prison reform advocate calls for Canada’s last prison labour-operated abattoir to finally close, by @LeftHandStu #cdnpoli
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The @WhigStandard published our response to the beef industry's letter calling Bloody Bad Business: Report on the Joyceville Institution Abattoir "biased bull." Documents speak for themselves & slaughter is not good for prisoners as beef industry claims.
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Beef industry blasts Bloody Bad Business, calls Joyceville Abattoir Report "bull," defends abattoir's economic importance to industry & says killing animals is good for inmates. What's misleading? Facts exposed in CSC's own documents, or industry's denial? thewhig.com/opinion/letters/…
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Prison farm group critical of Joyceville Institution abattoir
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NEWS RELEASE: Corrections 🇨🇦 Training Prisoners to Kill, Violating Human Rights. "Bloody Bad Business" exposes never-before-seen violations at Canada's last prison abattoir. Contraband smuggling, spraying blood, animal abuse & prisoners made to kill for $. evolveourprisonfarms.ca/bloo…
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"It’s time to set the record straight, lay the facts on the table, and shine a light on an unsettling mixture of deception and propaganda," our latest Op/Ed writers assert regarding the recent CBC film and its subsequent media coverage. #ygk #prisonfarms
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Opinion: The truth about CBC's 'Prison Farm' kingstonist.com/culture/opin… via @kingstonist
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HIGHLIGHT: In the panel, "Canada's Proposed Prison Farm Program: Why It Won't Work, & What Would Work Better", @EvolveOPF founder Calvin Neufeld explains the govt's troubling plans to use prisoner labour to operate what would likely be largest goat dairy factory farm in Canada.
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#CALC2021 panel, "Canada's Proposed Prison Farm Program: Why It Won't Work, & What Would Work Better", critiques proposed prison dairy & beef factory farm operations, ft. Amy Fitzgerald, Calvin Neufeld of @EvolveOPF, Kevin Belanger, & @martinezdefence
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New report "Bloody Bad Business: Report on the Joyceville Institution Abattoir" brings to light 26 yrs of legal, regulatory, contractual & human rights violations in Canada's last prison slaughterhouse. Countless reasons to stop training prisoners to kill.
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After 5 years we're concluding our campaign. Not going away, downshifting to monitor/report as prison dairy farms appear failing despite CSC denial.
"The Vision: Evolve Our Prison Farms" art by Jamie Neufeld. Green ag & therapy still possible one day.
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Submitted 50000 signature petition to Corrections Canada calling for cancellation of #PrisonIndustrialGoatFarm. Response from @CSC_SCC_en: "Implementation of the dairy goat program will resume once the effects of COVID can be fully assessed." Unacceptable. change.org/p/government-of-c…
Calling for investigation by CBC Ombudsman. Have conflicts of interest compromised the journalistic integrity of @CBCNews? Total silence on #PrisonIndustrialGoatFarm despite much prison farm promotion featuring a few cows, bees & a special interest group. evolveourprisonfarms.ca/inve…
