Prisons, Penitentiaries
Report: The Aboriginal Justice Research Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Vivien Carli
Description
Responding to the increasing number of Aboriginal people in Montreal coming into contact with the criminal justice system this study looks at over-reliance of imprisonment and lack of programming regarding a prevention approach.
Residential School Related to Increased Female Incarcerat[i]on
Alternate Title
Residential School Related to Increased Female Incarceration
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shari Narine
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 4, July 2012, p. 11
Description
Comments on a report that outlines, rather than prison terms, a number of recommendations for early intervention programs and educational opportunities for Aboriginal girls.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.11.
Residential Schools: Creating and Continuing Institutionalization Among Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julia Rand
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 6, no. 1, 2011, pp. 56-65
Description
Reviews the history of residential schools, other institutions, Goffman's notion of Total Institution and the consequences these institutions have had on Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
Resources for Indian Country Jails: Selected Bibliography from the NIC Information Center Collection
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sandy Schilling
Eileen Conway
Constance Clem
Description
Organized into the following divisions: facility design, construction, and transition; alternatives to building; facility staffing; facility operations; inmate/offender programs; re-entry/transition to the community; and miscellaneous.
Revalidation of the Custody Rating Scale for Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Women Offenders
Alternate Title
Research Report (Correctional Service of Canada) ; no. R-273
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Geoffrey Barnum
Renée Gobeil
Description
Scale consists of twelve items divided into subscales measuring institutional adjustment and security risk. Evaluation focused on 628 ratings completed between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2010.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Individual Presentation by Richard Greene
Documents & Presentations
Description
File contains an individual presentation by Richard Greene that touches on a number of topics, including Aboriginal urban housing, dismantling the Indian Act, and Aboriginal over-representation in the correctional system. Following the presentation is a question-and-answer session with the Commissioners.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Margaret Ruda, Saskatchewan Native Addictions Council Corporation
Alternate Title
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Margaret Ruda
Description
File contains a presentation by Margaret Ruda, Saskatchewan Native Addictions Council Corporation. Ruda, a Metis woman and "interested individual" in the Battlefords presents on the justice system, and questions whether it actually treats offenders in any substantive way. Following the presentation is a discussion between Ruda and Commissioner Erasmus on justice issues.
Special Report by the Québec Ombudsman: Detention Conditions, Administration of Justice and Crime Prevention in Nunavik
Alternate Title
Assessment of Follow-Up to Recommendations from the Special Report by the Québec Ombudsman: Detention Conditions, Administration of Justice and Crime Prevention in Nunavik
E-Books
Author/Creator
Robin Aubut-Fréchette
Joëlle McLaughlin
Karine Tremblay
Merlin Voghel
Description
Related Material: Assessment of Follow-Up to Recommendations.
Spirit Matters: Aboriginal People and the Corrections and Conditional Release Act
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Office of the Correctional Investigator
Justice as Healing, vol. 19, no. 2, 2014, pp. 7-8
Description
Selections from a the report, which revealed a dramatic increase of Aboriginal Peoples in the federal penitentiary system.
Entire issue on one pdf. To locate article, scroll to page 7.
The Terrible Truth About Canadian Crime: No Justice for Indigenous Women
Alternate Title
Marlee Kline Lecture in Social Justice ; 2015
[Special Lectures (Allard School of Law), 2015-2016]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Kim Pate
Description
Discusses incarcerated women, mental illness, incarceration rates and decarceration.
Duration: 1:06:07.
Two Maya Tales from the Mérida Cereso
Alternate Title
Two Maya Tales from the Merida Cereso
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Audrey Adele Harris
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 166-183
Description
Author presents a translation of and critical introduction to two short stories written in prison writing workshops by Yucatecan writers Zindy Abreu Barón and Yesli Dayanili Pech Pech; discusses how each story contains elements of Mayan traditional stories.
Two Perspectives on Aboriginal Female Suicides in Custody
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle G. Grossmann
Canadian Journal of Criminology, vol. 34, no. 3-4, July-October 1992, pp. [403]-416
Description
Argues that an integrated approach, incorporating both deprivation (influences external to the individual) and importation (internal to the individual) theory, is necessary when analyzing risk factors for suicide in the inmates.
Verdict Explanation: Jamie Goodwin and Ricardo Wesley, March 6 to 21, 2009
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Eden
Description
Presents a brief synopsis and interpretation of the issues presented at the inquest, the verdict, and recommendations made by the jury. The two men died while in custody on January 8, 2006, when a fatal fire broke out in the cellblock area of the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service ("NAPS") detachment in Kashechewan.
Work 2 Give: Fostering Collective Citizenship through Artistic and Healing Spaces for Indigenous Inmates and Communities in British Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Helen Brown
Kelsey Timler
BC Studies , no. 202, Arts, Crafts, and Healing: Understanding Social Citizenship in British Columbia, Summer, 2019, pp. 21-40
Description
Article uses the Work 2 Give program—which gives incarcerated men the opportunity to create goods and harvest for the Tŝilhqot’in First Nation—as a case study to examine the “healing potential of the arts and therapeutic craft in BC prisons.”