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CANADIAN
Dispatches from Ontario Prisons.The University of Guelph's alternative student paper, the Peak, dedicates an entire issue to incarceration.
guelphpeak.org
Report from Arrest the Legacy: from Residential Schools to Prisons dialogues.
Gender Matters: building strength in reconciliation report (June 2012) of the cross country dialogues on improving conditions and opportunities for Aboriginal women and girls impacted by residential schools who are criminalized or in conflict with the law. Published by the Native Women's Association of Canada.
Online Report and Videos.
www.cpaoc.ca
Canadian Prison Advocacy and Outreach Coalition: Advocacy re: HIV and harm reduction behind bars in Canada
endthepic.wordpress.com
End the Prison Industrial Complex is a prison abolition group based in Kingston, Ontario
cfrcprisonradio.wordpress.com
CPR is CFRC’s Prison Radio program (Kingston, ON)
www.prisonercorrespondenceproject.com
Queer and Trans Prisoner Justice in Montreal and Beyond
Tracking the Politics of 'Crime' and Punishment in Canada Check out Justin Piché's blog for critical commentary that aims to make sense of recent developments in the politics of 'crime' and punishment in the Canadian context.
Check out the Toronto Star series on Crime and Punishment
Various articles, interviews and stats. Aug 2008
Roundtable on Prison Abolition
Upping the Anti, a journal of theory and action, featured a roundtable with prison abolitionists from across Canada. Nov 2007
www.justicebehindthewalls.net
Justice Behind The Walls: dedicated to protecting human rights in Canadian prisons.
www.pasan.org
Prisoners' HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (PASAN) based in Toronto.
www.aidslaw.ca
Canadian HIV AIDS Legal Network - Focus on prisons
joanr73.wordpress.com
Just Blog: A Rittenhouse production
justiceandfreedomforjohnmoore.blogspot.com
John Moore, an Ojibway man, was wrongfully convicted 32 years ago. He spent 10 years
in prison and has been living with Life sentence since then. He is seeking
exoneration.
www.elizabethfry.ca
Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS):
Working with and for women and girls in the justice system.
www.capp.50megs.com
Citizens Against Private Prisons based in Ontario (archived site)
www.qpirgconcordia.org
Open Door Books Collective - Montreal: Provides free literature and information to people being held by the state across North America.
www.opirg-carleton.org/sub-groups/b2p/
OPIRG-Carleton (Ottawa, ON) Books to Prisoners Project
www.robertsstreet.org/books-beyond-bars
Books Beyond Bars, Halifax
www.jpp.org
Journal of Prisoners on Prisons
www.justiceforgirls.org
Justice for Girls: Support, justice, and equality for teenage girls who have experienced violence and live in poverty.
www.innocenceproject.ca
Innocence Project Osgoode Hall
www.innocenceproject.law.ubc.ca
Innocence Project UBC
www.mcgill.ca/innocence
Innocence Project McGill
www.justiceforharkat.com
Justice for Mohamed Harkat Committee (the Fight against National Security Certificates)
www.adilinfo.org
Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui (the Fight against National Security Certificates)
www.canadianprisonlaw.com
Canadian Prison Law
www.oci-bec.gc.ca
The Office of the Correctional Investigator:
Ombudsman for federal offenders who investigates individual prisoner complaints.
www.npb-cnlc.gc.ca
National Parole Board
U.S.
www.prisonactivist.org
Prison Activist Resource Centre (PARC): the source for progressive and
radical information on prisons and the criminal prosecution system. Runs
a prison news listserve.
www.prisons.org
California Prison Focus: working to stop human rights violations,
improve medical care and end long-term isolation in California's prisons.
www.criticalresistance.org
Critical Resistance: Focusing on the Prison
Industrial Complex.
Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance. Includes Art, Writing, Poetry, Politics.
ellabakercenter.org/bnb.html
Books Not Bars: Fighting to redirect California's public resources away from punishment for young people and towards opportunity.
www.sentencingproject.org
The Sentencing Project. Promotes reduced reliance on incarceration and
increased use of more effective and humane alternatives to deal with
crime.
www.nomoreprisons.org
Prison Moratorium Project
www.westernprisonproject.org
Western Prison Project
prisonsucks.com
Research on the Prison Industrial Complex
www.prisonlegalnews.org
Prison Legal News: produce monthly publication on court rulings and news related to prisoner rights and prison issues
www.uniondelbarrio.org/cmpp
Chicano Mexicano
Prison Project
www.prisonbookprogram.org
Prison Book Program (MA)
www.booksthroughbars.org
Books Through Bars (Philidelphia)
www.booksthroughbars.org/pbp/
Books to Prisoners: Full Listing of programs in the US
www.famm.org
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
www.ncadp.org
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
www.noprisons.org
The Coalition For The Abolition of Prisons
www.justicepolicy.org
Justice Policy Institute: promoting effective solutions to social problems and dedicated to ending society’s reliance on incarceration.
www.4strugglemag.org
Views, Thoughts, and Analysis from the Hearts and Minds of North American
Political Prisoners and Friends
INTERNATIONAL
www.actionicopa.orgThe International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA)
www.hrw.org/prisons
Human Rights Watch - Prisons
www.justiceaction.org.au
The International Conference on Penal Abolitionist (ICOPA).
The next ICOPA is being held in Longdon, England in July, 2008 and is being hosted
by the Howard League.
www.sistersinside.com.au
Sisters Inside: Working with women in Queensland, Australia
www.justiceaction.org.au
Justice Action - Australia
www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/law/research/icps
International Centre for Prison Studies: Global Research on Prisons from Kings College, London, England
Read a report from the conference, put together by Justice Action in Australia. Link to the PDF.
Check out a documentary on the 2006 ICOPA conference held in Tasmania:
*View the short version: www.youtube.com
*Order the long version: www.justiceaction.org.au
www2.ohchr.org/english/law/treatmentprisoners.htm
United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners