James Loughery fonds. 1985-1996.

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James Loughery fonds. 1985-1996.

Fonds consists mainly of correspondence of outgoing and incoming photocopied letters to Claire Culhane and Noam Chomsky, as well as copies of articles and speeches written by Claire Culhane.

6 cm of textual records.

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Loughery, James H.

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James Loughery was a B.C. Corrections Officer who corresponded with Claire Culhane about the penitentiary system. From the description of James Loughery fonds. 1985-1996. (University of British Columbia Library). WorldCat record id: 607081578 ...

Culhane, Claire

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The daughter of Russian Jewish refugees, Claire Culhane was born in Montreal and moved to Vancouver in the early 1950s. In 1976 as a member of the Citizen's Advisory Committee at the B.C. Penitentiary, she began working tirelessly for prison reform. Founder and most vocal member of the Vancouver-based Prisoners' Rights Group, Culhane has written two books on prison reform and her experiences in fighting the prison system entitled "Barred from Prison" (1979) and "Still Barred from Prison" (1985)....