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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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Justin Ling
Aug 05, 2020
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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…

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