With the back-to-school season upon us, students and teachers are anticipating the exciting possibilities for growth and transformation that will come in the academic year ahead. For incarcerated people, however, September is just another month in which the educational opportunities they so desperately need are kept out of reach. Even though prison staff are expected to facilitate inmate access to education, that policy conflicts with another in Canada’s prisons: the near-total ban on access to the internet. Exceptions to this rule are rare and inadequate.
