33 results for ‘Kingston Prison For Women’ found
This addition of Tightwire comes during 500th anniversary of the day Columbus discovered America. Because of this it is full of the struggles of Aboriginal people with discrimination within North American... Read More
SUMMARY: This issue discusses the influx of prisoners applying to see their files under the Canadian Human Rights Act, the history and public misunderstanding of the Doukhobors, the improvements to Millhaven’s... Read More
SUMMARY: This edition discusses media and prisoner views of P4W, human rights in Canada, and prisoner literacy. The inaccuracies of reports from the CSC, the costs of incarceration, and the ruling of a... Read More
SUMMARY: This issue discusses the injustices, conflict, and unrest at P4W. It details the problems women face in the Canadian justice system, the changes to the penal system proposed by the Task Force... Read More
KEYWORDS: Ole Injstrup, CSC Mission Statement, Warehousing Effect, Community Correctional Housing Model, Carleton Native Sisterhood Conference, Leonard Peltier, smoking cessation... Read More
KEYWORDS: Law Reform Commission “Working Paper #1”, Daubny Commission, New Women in Sobriety (NEWS), Brentwood Program Read More
KEYWORDS: circus boycott, Art Solomon, sexist language, Brentwood Program, Exceptional People’s Olympiad, Disabled Women’s International, “To a safer place”... Read More
KEYWORDS: convict wages, drug testing, behaviour alteration programs, Bill C-31, prison over-crowding conference Read More
This issue begins with an article on Prisoners’ Justice Day and the effects that isolation and solitary confinement have on incarcerated individuals in the Canadian prison system. Covered in this... Read More
This issue contains articles discussing the death penalty, the struggles of a transexual person in prison, as well as proposed extensions to P4W. Within these articles various topics ae covered such... Read More
SUMMARY: This edition discusses the widespread impact of “wife battering”, the lack of aboriginal rights in Canada, the importance of women and men from an aboriginal perspective, the lack of drugs... Read More
SUMMARY: This issue discusses colonization and its aftermath, the lack of post-secondary education available to federal prisoners, the controversy surrounding special handling units, and the lack of change... Read More
The most prevalent theme in this issue of Tightwire surrounds the announcement in January by Solicitor General Robert Kaplan that prison education programs would be cut. Another important concern is... Read More
SUMMARY: This issues discusses the importance of prisoners answering their children’s’ questions about their incarceration, the types of crimes women commit, the factors that increase female criminality,... Read More
Keywords: Prison Rights Group, Leonard Peltier, addictions Read More