Index:

Prison Publications in Canada
Prison Radio in Canada
Prisoner & Advocate Authors in Canada
Prisoner Book Resources in Canada
Prisoner Deaths in Federal Custody in Canada
Prisoner Deaths in Provincial Custody in Canada
Prison/er Documentary Films in Canada
Prisoner Health Resources in Canada
Prison/ers Justice Day in Canada
Prisoner Legal Resources in Canada
Prisoner Support for 2SLGBTQQIA+ in Canada
Prisoner Support for Im/migrants & Refugees in Canada
Prisoner Support for Women & Family in Canada
Prisoner Support Resources in Canada
Privatization of Prison Services in Canada

Prison Publications in Canada

Cell Count Current  Archive 1995-2015
Certain Days Calendar
Class Action News CAN Prisoner Class & Loved Ones
Journal of Prisoners on Prison JPP
Prison News Service PNS Archive 1986-1996
Radical Criminology An insurgent journal
The Penal Press CDN Prison Publication Archive
Warrior Publications Indigenous anti-colonial struggles, resistance & analysis
Women's Prison Network WPN Women, Trans, Youth & Loved Ones

Prison Radio in Canada

Prison Radio CFRC 101.9 fm (Kingston) Wed 7-8pm
Prison Radio CFRO 100.5 fm (Vancouver) 1st Mon 7-8pm
Prison Radio CFRU  93.3 fm (Guelph) Thu 10-11am
Prison Radio CKDU  88.1 fm (Halifax) Black Power Hour - Fri 1-3pm
Prison Radio CKDU  88.1 fm (Halifax) Youth Now! - Mon 5-6pm
Prison Radio CKUT  90.3 fm (Montreal) 2nd Thu 5-6pm; 4th Fri 11-noon - Archive

Prisoner & Advocate Authors in Canada

150 Years of Colonialism, Violence, and Erasure in Canada (2017) by: IntersectionalAnalyst.com
A Brief History of Prisons & Resistance to them in so-called Canada (2018)
A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden (2012) Stephen Reid
Arresting Hope: Women Taking Action in Prison Health Inside Out (2014)
Assimilation Through Incarceration (2012) Madelaine Christine Jacobs
Barred from Prison: A Personal Account (1979) Claire Culhane
Beyond Incarceration: Safety and True Criminal Justice (2017) Paula Mallea
Bias Behind Bars: A Globe Investigation (2020) Tom Cardoso
Bingo! The Horrifying Eyewitness Account of a Prison Riot (1985) Roger Caron
Bobby Landers Tonight (Lyrics) Larry Ewashen
Bringing Balance to the Scales of Justice: Resource Guide (2018) MCPEI Indigenous Justice Program
Canada's Prisons are the 'New Residential Schools' (2016) Nancy Macdonald
Carceral Redlining: White Supremacy is a Weapon of Mass Incarceration ... (2020) Brief Rai Reece
Carceral Redlining: White Supremacy is a Weapon of Mass Incarceration ... (2020) InfoGraphic Rai Reece
Claire Culhane: Struggles for Justice (1986) Brian Burtch
Claire Culhane: A Humanist Portrait (2013) Glenn Hardie
Coming Back to Jail: Women, Trauma, and Criminalization (2018) Elizabeth Comack
Convicted But Not Convinced (Short Story) Larry Ewashen
Criminalizing Women: Gender and (In)Justice in Neoliberal Times (2014) Gillian Balfour, Elizabeth Comack
Did Prisons Ever Work? (2020) Lauren McKeon
Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla (2001) Ann Hansen
Disruptive Prisoners: Resistance, Reform, and the New Deal (2021) Chris Clarkson, Melissa Munn
Down Inside: Thirty Years in Canada's Prison Service (2017) Robert Clark: CBC Interview
Everyone Calls Themselves An Ally, Until It Is Time To Do Some Real Ally Shit Xhopakelxhit/ Ancestral Pride
Everything you were never taught about Canada’s prison systems (2017) by: IntersectionalAnalyst.com
Fuck Your Racist Prisons, Fuck Your Racist Nation (2013) by: End the Prison Industrial Complex
Genocide and the Maintenance of Power (2018) Wanda Hounslow
Getting Tough on Kids: Young Offenders & the 'Law & Order Agenda' (1999) Paula Mallea
Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars (1978) Roger Caron
Guidelines for Advocacy (2000) by: Strength In Sisterhood (SIS) Society
Hard Time: Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada (2012) Ted McCoy
Indians Wear Red (2013) Elizabeth Comack, Lawrence Deane, Larry Morrissette, Jim Silver
Indigenous Ally Toolkit (2019) by: Montreal Indigenous Community Network
Jackrabbit Parole (1986) Stephen Reid
Jim Campbell Archive (send us more!)
Jim Campbell (Julie Thiers) Collection Anarchist Archive
Justice Behind the Walls (2002) Michael Jackson
Kent Prisoner's Hunger Strike 1983 Sarah Nickel, Eryk Martin, Tania Willard
Locked Up Libraries: A Critique of Canadian Prison Library Policy (2022) Michelle De Agostini
No Life for a Child: A Roadmap to End Immigration Detention of Children & Family Separation
No Longer Barred from Prison: Social Injustice in Canada (1991) Claire Culhane
One Woman Army: The Life of Claire Culhane (1992) Mick Lowe
Our Destiny is Not Negotiable: Native Brotherhoods & Decolonization (2012) Seth Adema
Perilous: A Chronicle of Prisoner Unrest Across the US and Canada
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (2017) Robyn Maynard
Prison Insider News
Prisoners of Isolation: Solitary Confinement in Canada (1983) Michael Jackson
Racism Behind Bars: Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System (1994)
Solidarity Beyond Bars: Unionizing Prison Labour (2022) Jordan House, Asaf Rashid
Still Barred From Prison: Social Injustice in Canada (1985) Claire Culhane
Taking the Rap: Women Doing Time for Society’s Crimes (2018) Ann Hansen
The Fear Factor: Stephen Harper’s 'Tough on Crime' Agenda (2010) Paula Mallea
The Human Rights of Prisoners in The Correctional System (2019) Think 2wice, Zya Brown
The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang (2015) Josh Dean
The Life Crimes and Hard Times of Ricky Atkinson (2017) Richard Atkinson
The Outside Circle (2015) Patti LaBoucane-Benson, Kelly Mellings
The War on Drugs: A Failed Experiment (2013) Paula Mallea
This Bank Robber’s Life (2015) Patrick ’Paddy’ Mitchell
Tough on Crime, Weak on Results (2015) Paula Mallea
Turn Over a Rock Today You’ll find what someone else doesn’t want you to see.
Who is a Prisoner? (2023) Lydia Dobson
Wrongfully Convicted: Guilty Pleas, Imagined Crimes, and What Canada Must Do to Safeguard Justice (2023) Kent Roach

Prisoner Book Resources in Canada

Book Clubs for Inmates BCFI
Books 2 Prisoners (Vancouver)
Books Beyond Bars (Halifax)
Books to Bars (Hamilton)
Books to Prisoners GELA Prison Project for EI, EIFW & ERC (Edmonton)
Books to Prisoners Open Door Books (Montreal)
Books to Prisoners (Ottawa)
Library Outreach on the Inside Toolkit Prison Libraries Committee (Manitoba)
National Guide for Institutional Libraries CSC
Prison Libraries Committee for HCC, WCC, TPCC & WRC (Manitoba)
Prisoners’ Right to Read Prison Libraries Network

Prisoner Deaths in Federal Custody in Canada

In Memory: Prisoner deaths from 2000 to this year by: Tracking (In)Justice
Not In The Public Interest First Nations Deaths In Police Custody (BC)

Prisoner Deaths in Provincial Custody in Canada

In Memory: Prisoner deaths from 2000 to this year by: Tracking (In)Justice
Not In The Public Interest First Nations Deaths In Police Custody (BC)
Ontario Deaths in Custody on the Rise - 2022 by: Tracking (In)Justice

Prison/er Documentary Films in Canada

A Hard Name Struggles to adapt to life on the outside (TVO 2009 88min)
Ashley Smith: Out of Control (CBC Fifth Estate 01/2010 45min)
Ashley Smith: Behind the Wall (CBC Fifth Estate 11/2010 45min)
Wronged: Did Ashley Smith’s Death End Solitary Confinement? (CBC Fifth Estate 2019 16min)
Cell 16 Effects of Incarceration (NFB 1971 14min)
Death Behind Bars Suspicious Deaths at EMDC (CBC Fifth Estate 2017 45min)
Detention Kids in Immigration Detention (NFB 2017 37sec)
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster (2011 104min)
Emma’s Acres: Reintegration, Restoration and Food Security Mission, BC (CBC 2016 17min)
Enemy Alien Japanese POWs in Internment Camps (NFB 1975 26min)
Eyes in the Back of Your Head Prisons in ON (Telltales Media 2003 33min)
Fly in the Ointment (Peter Collins+ 2015 10min)
Guy Paul Morin: Odd Man Out (CBC Fifth Estate 2015 48min)
Hard Crimes and Dirty Tricks Ricky Atkinson (TVO 2018 26min)
How to Prepare for Prison (TVO 2016 83min)
If These Walls Could Talk: Stories Behind Toronto's Psychiatric Patient-Built Wall (2013 68min)
Incarcerated: Truth in Shadows (2021 52min)
Inside Canada's Prisons (CBC 2001 129min)
Inside Time Portrait of Stephen Reid (NFB 2007 35min)
Jail Death: What happened to Soleiman Faqiri? (CBC Fifth Estate 2019 21min)
Jail Deaths: Captured on Camera at Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre (CBC Fifth Estate 2017 31min)
Kids in Jail At-risk youth (NFB 2013 45min)
Life Inside Out Grand Valley Institution for Women (NFB 2005 73min)
Life with Murder (NFB 2009 95min)
Minoru: Memory of Exile Japanese POWs in Internment Camps (NFB 1992 18min)
Myths and Facts About Prison (TVO 2016 10min)
Naked Island - Detention (NFB 2017 37sec)
NCR: Not Criminally Responsible (NFB 2013 99min)
Not Criminally Responsible: Wedding Secrets (CBC 2016 44min)
Out of Mind, Out of Sight: Inside the Brockville Psych (NFB 2014 87min)
Penitentiary! (NFB 1951 10min)
Psychiatric Treatment or Torture? The Oak Ridge Experiment (CBC Fifth Estate 2021 32min)
Sentenced to Life Prisoner with mental health problems (NFB 2003 70min)
Steven Truscott: His Word Against History (CBC Fifth Estate 2000 49min)
The Donald Marshall Jr. Story (2009 46min)
The Enemy Within German POWs in Internment Camps (NFB 2003 52min)
The Forgotten: The Children of Marian Hall Speak (CBC Fifth Estate 2019 26min)
The Secret Trial 5 National Security Certificate Victims (2014 84min) Director's Interview (15min)
The Spirit Within Indigenous Spirituality Programs (NFB 1990 51min)
Til the Cows Come Home Prison Farms Shut-Down (2014 60min)
Visiting Day (2019 3min)
Walls to Bridges Post-secondary courses in jails/ prisons (2018 9min)

Prisoner Health Resources in Canada

Collaborating Centre for Prison Health and Education CCPHE
COVID-19 In Prison - FAQ - Checklist
InSite for Community Safety IFCS Supervised Injection Site (Vancouver)
Mainline Needle Exchange (Halifax)
Native Youth Sexual Health Network NYSHN
Prison Health Now Advocacy for prison-based needle & syringe programs
Prisoners with HIV/AIDS Support Action Network PASAN
Self-Harm Among Criminalized Women (Fact Sheet)
Street Health (Toronto)
Street Health Centre (Kingston)
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users VANDU
Vancouver Infectious Disease Centre VIDC
Vancouver Aboriginal Health Society VAHS

Prison/ers Justice Day in Canada

In Memory: Prisoner deaths from 2000 to this year by: Tracking (In)Justice
Prison/ers Justice Day PJD - Their-story (Vancouver)
Prisoners Justice Day PJD - Their-story (Peter Collins Radio Interview 2011)
Prisoners Justice Day PJD - In Remembrance
Prisoners Justice Day (a retrospective montage)
Prisoners Justice Day (a memorial sculpture)
What Happened to Prisoners Justice Day? Audio series (5ep x 30m 2019)

Prisoner Legal Resources in Canada

Aboriginal Legal Services Toronto ALST
Access Pro Bono (BC)
Amnesty International Canada
Black Legal Action Centre BLAC (Ontario)
British Columbia Civil Liberties Association BCCLA
Campaign for the Abolition of Solitary Confinement
Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers CARL
Canadian Civil Liberties Association CCLA
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network CHALN
Canadian Legal Information Institute CanLII
Canadian Prison Law Association CPLA
Community Justice Initiatives CJI
Community Legal Assistance Services for Saskatoon Inner City
Community Legal Clinic - Central Alberta
Community Legal Education Ontario CLEO
Coverdale Justice Society (Nova Scotia)
Department of Justice
Detention and Asylum Research Cluster
Family Law Education for Women FLEW
HIV-AIDS Legal Clinic of Ontario HALCO
Innocence Canada formerly AIDWYC
Innocence McGill University Faculty of Law
Innocence Project UBC Allard School of Law
Justice Education Society of BC
Justice Laws Government of Canada
Justice Pro Bono Quebec
Law Central Alberta LCA
Legal Aid Programs
Legal Line Free legal information in 107 languages
Mi'kmaw Legal Support Network MLSN (Nova Scotia)
Ontario Women's Justice Network OWJN
People's Advocacy & Transformation Hub PATH (Nova Scotia)
Pivot Legal Society PLS
Prisoner Rights Human Rights Commission
Pro Bono Law Alberta
Pro Bono Law Saskatchewan
Pro Bono Ontario
Pro Bono Students Canada
Queen's Prison Law Clinic QPLC
Refugee Law Offices (Ontario)
Refugee Lawyers Association of Ontario
South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario SALCO
Steps to Justice (ON)
Volunteer Lawyers Service VLS Pro Bono Lawyers for Orgs
West Coast Prison Justice Society / Prisoners' Legal Services
Women's Legal Education and Action Fund LEAF
Your Legal Rights

Prisoner Support for 2SLGBTQQIA+ in Canada

2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations (Toronto)
JusticeTrans Justice and Legal Info
Prisoner Correspondence Project Penpal Service
Rainbow Health Ontario
Trans Community Services The 519 (Toronto)
Trans PULSE Project (Ontario)
Trans+ People in Canadian Prisons Project Federal Research Study
Two-Spirited People of Manitoba

Prisoner Support for Im/migrants & Refugees in Canada

Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers CARL
Canadian Council for Refugees CCR
End Immigration Detention Network EIDN
Migrant Rights Network
No Life for a Child: A Roadmap to End Immigration Detention of Children & Family Separation
No One Is Illegal NOI
Refugee Law Offices (Ontario)
Refugee Lawyers Association of Ontario
Refugee Research Network
Solidarity Across Borders SAB
South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario SALCO
We Have No Rights Cruel Treatment of Migrants w/ Mental Health Issues

Prisoner Support for Women & Family in Canada

Amadeusz (TLMLP)
Bar None Prison Visiting Rideshare (Manitoba)
Children of Inmates Reading Program ChIRP
Community Justice Initiatives CJI (Waterloo Region)
Coverdale Justice Society (Nova Scotia)
Elizabeth Fry Societies CAEFS
Family Law Education for Women FLEW
From the Ground Up Women's Wellness Society (Nova Scotia)
Joint Effort Solidarity work (BC)
Justice for Children and Youth JFCY
Justice For Girls JFG
Kids with Incarcerated Parents KIP Services & Prison Visit Bus (Ontario)
Mothers Offering Mutual Support MOMS
No Life for a Child: A Roadmap to End Immigration Detention of Children & Family Separation
Ontario Women's Justice Network OWJN
P4W Memorial Collective; on FB; JPP Article
Prison State Canada
Self-Harm Among Criminalized Women (Fact Sheet)
Sesame Street: Coping With Incarceration
Social Justice and Women's Health (Report 1999)
South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario SALCO
The Second Chance Foundation
Thunder Woman Healing Lodge
Women & the Criminal Justice System (Report 2011)
Women's Legal Education and Action Fund LEAF
Wellness Within WW (Nova Scotia)

Prisoner Support Resources in Canada

Canadian Civil Liberties Association CCLA
Canadian Criminal Justice Association CCJA
Canadian Registry of Wrongful Convictions CRWC
Carceral Cultures / Cultures Carcérales
Collaborating Centre for Prison Health and Education CCPHE
Community Justice Initiatives CJI (Waterloo Region)
Correctional Investigator Federal Prisons
Correctional Service of Canada CSC Locations, visiting info ...
Criminalization and Punishment Education Project CPEP
Demand Prisons Change
Disability Justice Network of Ontario DJNO
Drug Users Memorial
East Coast Prison Justice Society ECPJS
Emma’s Acres: Reintegration, Restoration and Food Security (Mission, BC)
Evolve Our Prison Farms EOPF Stop the Prison Industrial Goat Farm!
Fresh Start Coalition Seeking Automatic Criminal Record Removal
F-You: Forgiveness Project Programs in jails for at-risk/ gang-affiliated young men
Inmates for Humane Conditions Raising funds to help prisoners in Saskatchewan
Jail Hotline (by TPRP) (for EMDC: Mon-Sat 9-11am & 2-4pm 519-642-9289)
Jail Hotline (by TPRP) (for MCC, OCI, TEDC, TSDC, VCW: Mon-Sat 9-11am & 2-4pm 416-307-2273)
John Howard Society JHS
Justice Exchange
Justice for Inmates (ON)
Letters for the Inside LFTI (c/o SFPIRG, BC)
LINC Society Long-term Inmates Now in the Community (BC)
Native Counselling Services of Alberta
Prison Justice History & Resources
Prison Justice Network
Prison Transparency Project
Prisoners United
Pros and Cons Program Prison Music Production (ON)
Restorative Justice Housing Ontario RJHO
Rittenhouse: A New Vision
Smart Justice Network of Canada SJNC
Social Justice Toolbox SJTB
Stella Support & Resources for Sex-workers
Think 2wice (ON)
Toronto Prisoner’s Rights Project TPRP
Tracking the Politics of Criminalization & Punishment in Canada TPCP Canada
Walls to Bridges W2B Post-secondary courses in jails/ prisons
Write On! Supporting Prisoners Through Correspondence

Privatization of Prison Services in Canada

CSC: Disclosure of Contracts
CSC: Disclosure of Grants & Contributions Awards Over $25,000