Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Human Rights in Action: A Handbook for Women and Gender-Diverse People in Federal Prison in Canada
This handbook is designed to give you the tools and resources to defend and advocate for your rights while you are federally incarcerated. This handbook is written specifically for people in prison, but advocates, lawyers, and other allies will also find it useful in their work.
Reproductive (In)Justice in Canadian Federal Prisons for Women
This report highlights how incarceration as a new parent and / or during the period of reproductive age is a barrier to being able to choose to parent and to parent children you do have. By preventing reproduction, dislocating children from their parents to the foster care system, and placing mothers at greater risk to their health and survival, the incarceration of Indigenous women in Canada meets the United Nations (1948) definition of genocide.
In Conversation: Reproductive Injustice in Canadian Federal Prisons for Women
This video details how federal incarceration impedes reproductive justice by restricting access to health services and by destroying family connections for incarcerated survivors.
Fact Sheet: The Criminalization & Overincarceration of Indigenous Women
This sheet provides an overview on the overincarceration of Indigenous women in federal prisons, as well as its interconnected causes , which include the over-policing and under-protection of Indigenous communities, systemic socioeconomic marginalization, and ongoing colonial policies and institutions.
Fact Sheet: Strip Searches in Federal Prisons Designated for Women
Strip searches are often experienced as sexual assault and can have detrimental effects on incarcerated women, non-binary, and two sprit people. This fact sheet provides an overview on this pervasive issue in federal prisons in Canada designated for women.
Fact Sheet: Sexual Violence and Coercion in Federal Prisons Designated for Women
This fact sheet provides an overview of key facts and findings related to sexual violence in federal prisons designated for women, and concludes with CAEFS’ recommendations for addressing this issue.
Human Rights in Action: A Handbook for Women in Provincial Jails in British Columbia
This toolkit is about enabling women to survive criminalization and prison by reinforcing their own, pre-existing capacities and strengths, and to assist incarcerated women to become a self and peer advocates.