A “Save the Prison Farms” March will be held on Sunday, June 6th, 2010, which a rally that will begin at 1:30pm at Sydenham St. United Church. The rally will be followed by a march to Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) Kingston headquarters on King St. at about 3:30pm. Margaret Atwood will join citizens of all ages and political stripes on the march to CSC headquarters.
Speakers at the rally will include Sister Pauline Lally , General Superior of the Sisters of Prov idence, John Leeman, former inmate and prison farm employee, farmer Jeff Peters farmer of the National Farmers Union. As it stands, all 6 of the federal prison farms are set to close, while two of these facilities help serve correctional institutions within Kingston.
