Corrections cutting jobs as prison farm costs blow past $40-million

CUSMA negotiations may spell further trouble as the carceral agribusiness competes in Canada’s supply-managed dairy sector, and implicates prison labour in a supply chain of powdered milk exports.
Conservative MP Scott Reid visits the prison dairy research program at Joyceville Institution in Kingston, Ont., on Feb. 19, 2025.

At a time when the Correctional Service of Canada is eliminating librarian jobs from prisons to save $2.4-mi...

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