Justin Ling: Prisoners also deserve free speech
No class of Canadians suffers more arbitrary restrictions to its speech rights than inmates
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For years, Glen Assoun had to keep making new hats. Each one, like the last, read:
WRONGLY CONVICTED 1998
Assoun's ex-girfriend, Brenda Way, was stabbed to death in an apartment in Dartmouth Nova Scotia in 1995. A shambolic police investigation and court process eventually led to Assoun's conviction for second-degree murder.
Assoun insisted he hadn’t done…