User:Barry A. Dennison/sandbox

While employed by the Correctional Services of Canada, 1977-82, Barry Dennison told the inmates at their John Howard meeting media that "inmates and guards must talk about problems", organize their collective viewpoint [inmates, staff], meet with the administration, video those meeting to be sent to university graduate researchers and professors [in areas of law, sociology, psychology, psychiatry, criminology] to identify the issues they wish to study, finance it in the university as per normal,publish as per normal with no Correctional Service security check. Peer related papers would be approved, reviewed and developed using real life people, inside a federal prison as information data.

In l982, Dennison appeared at a symposium at St Lawrence College with inmate/author Roger Caron to a crowd of 200 students jammed into a small studio to discuss prison conditions and Dennison's proposal of involving academia with Canada's prison culture. After not being able to influence QECVI staff and students from videoing the guard for their class project.

After already promoted his university/prison to 200 politicians and community leaders asking for their support across Canada, infuriated bureaucrats of the Correctional Service of Canada. Kingston the Member of Parliament was Flora MacDonald led the way in writing to the Warden, asking if Dennison was being treated fairly? Then, NDP Justic Critic Svend Robinson wrote to the Commissioner of Penitentiaries, Donald Yeomans, [reportedly an accountant with Revenue Canada and good ties with the then Prime Minister, Pierre E. Trudeau.

The then Registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada, a former Quebec court family judge,