CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — The Island Lecture Series’ presentation for December features visiting scholar Dacia Leslie, speaking about the prison system in her home country of Jamaica.
Her talk, “Don’t Discard the Utilitarian Aims: Revisiting the UK Prison Offer”, will be held Tuesday, Dec. 10, 7 p.m., in the Faculty Lounge of UPEI’s Main Building. All are welcome.
One of the extended controversies surrounding the $5.5 billion in Jamaican dollars ($51.8 million Cdn) offer from the United Kingdom in 2016 to help build a modern prison in Jamaica concerns the extent to which the offer was a form of “penal humanitarianism”.
If prison transfer agreements to which penal humanitarianism has been intrinsically linked are a means of extending historical geopolitical power, the government of Jamaica’s rejection of the offer might be considered good governance.
Leslie’s talk offers a pragmatic lens through which we might gain deeper insight into the justifications for Jamaica’s rejection of the offer.
Leslie is a research fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica. She is also a 2019 recipient of the Canada-CARICOM Faculty Leadership Scholarship, hosted by the Institute of Island Studies.
Admission to the lecture is free.
For more information, contact Laurie at [email protected] or 902-894-2881.
