Elizabeth Fry Society Of Manitoba - Advocacy, Support and Resources for Women in the Provincial and Federal Justice System

Issues, Advocacy and Information

Number of Women going to Prison Jumps 50 Per Cent
"Crime is a Theory” by Kim Pate, Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies [Video]
New Democrats Call for the Poverty Plan as Food Bank Use Spikes [PDF file]
Sapers Condems The Use of Inmate Segregation [PDF file]
Solitary Confinement 'Not Safe, Nor is it Humane' [PDF file]
Legislative developments in Ottawa: Summaries of Bills [html]
Letter to the Editor - Crime Down, Prison Boom Looms [PDF file]
Fact Sheet - Aboriginal Women (2007) [PDF file]
Community Options Required (2007) [PDF file]
Criminalized & Imprisoned Women (2007) [PDF file]
Health & Mental Health (2007) [PDF file]
Human & Fiscal Costs of Prison (2007) [PDF file]
Issues Associated with Increased Criminalization of Women (2007) [PDF file]
Long Term Effects of Abuse and Trauma (2007) [PDF file]
Mandatory Minimum Sentences (2007) [PDF file]
Poverty (2007) [PDF file]
Violence Against Women & Children (2007) [PDF file]
Young Women (2007) [PDF file]
Submission to Consultation Panel Regarding the Proposed Closure of Portage Women's Jail (2005) [PDF file]
National Associations Active in Criminal Justice (NAACJ) [PDF file]

Links

Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies: www.elizabethfry.ca
Mental Health Commission of Canada: 2008-2009 Annual Report
La Commission du santé mentale du Canada: Rapport annuel 2008-2009
Office of the Correctional Investigator Canada
Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence: www.pwhce.ca
Not in the Best Interest of Women and Children: An Analysis of Bill 422: An Act to Amend the Divorce Act
Pas dans l’intérêt des femmes et des enfants: Analyse du projet de loi C-422, Loi modifiant la Loi sur le divorce
A Flawed Compass: A Human Rights Analysis of the Roadmap to Strengthening Public Safety
Student gives hope to women in prison - Winnipeg Free Press

Ashley Smith CBC Fifth Estate Report
How does a girl who snuck granola bars from her home to feed a homeless man, collected beach rocks and devoured the first five Harry Potter novels end up dead on the floor of a federal prison at age 19?

Since Ashley Smith strangled herself with a piece of cloth the morning of Friday, Oct. 19, 2007, in a segregation cell while seven Correctional Officers at the Kitchener Ontario Grand Valley Institution for Women – who were ordered to not intervene – watched, government reports have tried to address this question.

Please click on the following link to watch the entire The Fifth Estate program:
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2009-2010/out_of_control/

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