Ann Hansen Reading at Capilano College
Join us from 11:30 a.m. at Library Building room LB217 for an unfiltered view of the lives of women caught up in the justice system.
In January 1983, Ann Hansen was arrested along with four fellow members of urban guerrilla organization Direct Action, which had orchestrated a bombing campaign the previous year. (The group is better known these days as the Squamish Five, following their arrest on the Sea-to-Sky Highway by police disguised as a road crew.)
Hansen served seven years of a life sentence in federal prisons, saying her experiences strengthened her resolve to fight the system that jails women for minor offences often related to poverty, abuse and mental health issues.