Inadequate Resources for and Access to Penitentiary Libraries Diminish Access to Justice and Transformation
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Abstract
Inadequate Resources for and Access to Penitentiary Libraries Diminish Access to Justice and Transformation Nellie Parr T he criminalized and incarcerated are subject to state power like few others in Canadian society.As such, we need to be aff orded with the resources to defend ourselves and our rights in order to hold state power in check and its offi cials accountable for their (in)actions where warranted.Last spring, our librarian was terminated.This caused signifi cant problems for prisoners who are trying to get their legal work done.There can be no pursuit of justice because of this retaliatory action on behalf of Fraser Valley Institution for Women (FVI).The promises made by FVI offi cials to the courts in affi davits attesting that prisoner have access to all necessary legal material to get legal work done have been proven untrue.In fact, a lawyer who has practiced law over three decades wrote a 22 August 2015 affi davit regarding the FVI library where the following was noted: …there are few law books.They fi t on one rolling cart by the door.Many of the books are outdated and there are no practice guides for the British Columbia Court of Appeal, nor the Supreme Court of Canada.There was no access to case law other than the Western Canada digest law on the computer.There was no case law for the rest of Canada or the United States or Great Britain.The case law was not in full text as required by the courts… hours of the library are also a problem for FVI inmates who work long hours or are involved in programs or other activities that take hours out of the day.There is restricted movement time from 9-11 a.m. and from 1-3 p.m.No one is allowed to go to the library during these hours.I believe that the inmates who work until the 6 p.m. count can only access the library twice a week from 7-9 p.m. Sometimes those times are not available as the imate staff do not always turn up.This interferes with getting legal work done.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.018 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.058 | 0.009 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".