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JOINT EFFORT

Joint Effort Graphic Joint Effort is an all women prison abolitionist group involved in solidarity work with women prisoners at the Fraser Valley Institution for Women (Federal) in Abbotsford, BC and the Allouette Correctional Centre for Women (Provincial) in Maple Ridge, BC. Joint Effort started as a sub committee of the BC Federation of Women and has been volunteering at the women's prison since 1980.

The group consists of women who work to create contacts between women in prison and various community organizations outside the prison.

On the "inside" our work consists of organizing discussion groups, various workshops and music, theatre and sports events. We work with the Inmate's Committee and the Native Sisterhood to support their activities in any way that we can. In our weekly visits we try to create a space where women from "inside" and "outside" can communicate around issues of mutual interest, where respect and confidentiality are practised and where a woman can speak her mind and be supported.

On the "outside", Joint Effort is involved in providing public information about the situation of women in prison as well as lobbying the government on various issues.

Joint Effort is an independent group that is not associated with the prison or the church. We are unpaid workers and the group does not receive any government or institutional funding.

Articles Relating to Women in Prison and/or Joint Effort

Resources on Federally Sentenced Women and Security Classification Canada, July 31, 2006 (2 articles, 1 research dcoument, links)

New Women's Jail to Replace Century Old Jail Canada, April 3, 2006 (CBC)

Sandy Paquachon Awakens from Coma, Still Seeking Humanitarian Parole Canada, December 5, 2005 (Stark Raven News)

Native Leaders Call for Alternatives to Jail for Women Manitoba, March 1, 2005 (CBC)

Justice for Girls Report Confirms that B.C. Youth Prisons Contravene Human Rights Laws April 28, 2005 (Justice For Girls Press Release)

More Promises To Women Not Kept: Women's Organizations Respond to CSC on the Human Rights Commission Report March 8, 2005 (Elizabeth Fry Society Press Release)

CSC Responds to Human Rights Commission Report on Women in Prison February 17, 2005 (Canadian Press)

Answers Sought in Woman's Death in Vanier Jail January 6, 2005 (Toronto Star)

Government Fails Kimberly Rogers Again August, 2004 (Toronto Star)

Lockdown at Nova Women's Prison June 14, 2004 (Stark Raven News)

Women Unsafe at Nova Scotia Halfway Houses May 17, 2004 (Stark Raven News)