Federal Shadows in the Canadian Prisons: The Case of Brainwashing

"Federal Shadows in the Canadian Prisons The Case of Brainwashing" describes the covert and illegitimate program the federal correctional agencies (CSC) practice in certain institutions in Canada. The narrative concentrates on the complex methods of the behavior modification program, which as the author claims on the bases of his personal experience, are essentially definable in terms of brainwashing. One of the figures, whose ideas and concepts serve as a paradigmatic frame for the narrative, is William Sargant. The relevance of the Sargantian notion of conversion is illustrated by the program's orientation on methods of fear-inducement, and deliberate debilitation of targeted individual in combination with staged church ceremonies and rituals of transformation (baptism, etc.).