ANNEX A - Bibliography, Legislation, Regulations, Commissioner’s Directives, Policy Bulletins and Cases

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Arbour, Louise. Commission of Inquiry into Certain Events at the Prison for Women in Kingston. Ottawa, Public Works and Government Services Canada, 1996.
Available: http://www.sgc.gc.ca/publications/corrections/pdf/199681_e.pdf

Auditor General of Canada. “Correctional Services Canada — Reintegration of Women Offenders", Chapter 4, Ottawa, Public Works and Government Services Canada. April 2003.
Available: http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/domino/reports.nsf/html/20030404ce.html/$file/20030404ce.pdf

Blanchette, Kelley and Craig Dowden. An Investigation into the Characteristics of Substance-Abusing Women Offenders — Risk, Need and Post-Release Outcome. Ottawa: Research Branch, Correctional Service Canada, April 1999.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/rsrch/reports/r81/er81.pdf

Blanchette, Kelley and Lawrence L. Motiuk. Maximum-security Female and Male Federal Offenders : A Comparison, Ottawa: Research Branch, Correctional Services Canada, March 1997.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/rsrch/reports/r53/r53e_e.pdf

Bloom, Barbara, Barbara Owen and Stephanie Covington. Gender-Responsive Strategies: Research, Practice, and Guiding Principles for Women Offenders, Washington, National Institute of Corrections, U.S. Department of Justice, June 2003.
Available: http://www.nicic.org/pubs/2003/018017.pdf

Brennan, Tim. "Institutional Classification of Females: Problems and Some Proposals for Reform", Female Offenders: Critical Perspectives and Effective Interventions, Ruth T. Zaplin, ed., Gaithersburg, Maryland, Aspen Publishers, Inc., 1998.
NOT AVAILABLE ON INTERNET AT TIME OF PUBLICATION

Canada. Office of the Correctional Investigator. Annual Report 2001-2002, Ottawa, Public Works and Government Services Canada, 2002.
Available: http://www.oci-bec.gc.ca/reports/pdf/AR200102_e.pdf 

Canada. Office of the Correctional Investigator. Annual Report 2002-2003, Ottawa, Public Works and Government Services Canada, 2003.
Available: http://www.oci-bec.gc.ca/reports/pdf/AR200203_e.pdf

Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Health. Report. Strengthening the Canadian Strategy on HIV/AIDS, Ottawa, Communication Canada, June 2003.
Available: http://www.parl.gc.ca/InfoComDoc/37/2/HEAL/Studies/Reports/healrp03-e.htm

Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Sub-committee on Corrections and Conditional Release Act of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. A Work in Progress: The Corrections and Conditional Release Act. Ottawa, Public Works and Government Services Canada, May 2000.
Available: http://www.parl.gc.ca/InfoComDoc/36/2/SCRA/Studies/Reports/just01/07-toc-e.html

Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Public Accounts. Twenty-sixth Report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts —  Chapter 4 of the April 2003 Report of the Auditor General of Canada - Correctional Service of Canada - Reintegration of Women Offenders, Ottawa, Public Works and Government Services, November 2003, Recommendation 12.
Available: http://www.parl.gc.ca/InfoCom/PubDocument.asp?FileID=66140&Language=E 

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. “Ottawa considers needle exchange in prisons”, CBC News, CBC/SRC, May 2003.
NOT AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET 

Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. HIV/AIDS in Prisons: High-Risk Behaviours behind Bars —  Info Sheet 2. Montreal, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, 2001.
Available: http://www.aidslaw.ca/Maincontent/issues/prisons/e-info-pa2.htm

Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. “Update on Needle and Syringe Exchange in Swiss Prisons”, Canadian HIV/AIDS Policy & Law Newsletter, Volume 1, Number 4. Montreal, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, July 1995.
Available: http://www.aidslaw.ca/Maincontent/otherdocs/Newsletter/July1995/04SWITZE.html

Canadian Human Rights Act Review Panel. Promoting Equality: A New Vision, Ottawa, Canadian Human Rights Act Review Panel under the authority of the Minister of Justice and the Attorney General of Canada, June 2000.
Available: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/webarchives/20071115211942/http://www.justice.gc.ca/chra/en/toc.html

Canadian Human Rights Commission. Annual Report 1995, Ottawa, Supply and Services Canada, 1996.
NOT AVAILABLE ON INTERNET AT TIME OF PUBLICATION

Canadian Human Rights Commission. Annual Report 1996, Ottawa, Public Works and Government Services Canada, 1997.
Available: /publications

Canadian Human Rights Commission. Annual Report 1997, Ottawa, Public Works and Government Services Canada, 1998.
Available: /publications

Canadian Human Rights Commission. Annual Report 1998, Ottawa, Public Works and Government Services Canada, 1999.
Available: /publications

Chan, Wendy and Kiran Mirchandani, eds. Crimes of Colour: Racialization and the Criminal Justice System in Canada. Peterborough, Broadview Press, Ltd., 2002.
NOT AVAILABLE ON INTERNET AT TIME OF PUBLICATION

Correctional Service of Canada. Basic Facts about Federal Corrections. Ottawa, Public Works and Government Services Canada, 2001.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/faits/facts07_e.shtml 

Correctional Service of Canada. Correctional Program Strategy for Federally Sentenced Women FSW N-18. Ottawa, Correctional Service of Canada, July 1994.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/prgrm/fsw/fsw18/toce_e.shtml

Correctional Service of Canada. Correctional Service Canada Women’s Institutions and Maximum Security Units: National Operational Protocol —  Front-Line Staffing. Ottawa, Correctional Service of Canada, n.d.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/pblct/nopfrontlinestaffing/index_e.shtml

Correctional Service of Canada. Creating Choices: The Report of the Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women. Ottawa, Supply and Services Canada, April 1990.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/prgrm/fsw/choices/toce_e.shtml

Correctional Service of Canada. Healing Lodges for Aboriginal Federal Offenders, Ottawa, Correctional Service of Canada, May 2003.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/prgrm/correctional/abissues/pdf/hl-e.pdf

Correctional Service of Canada. Human Rights and Corrections: A Strategic Model. Report of the Working Group on Human Rights, Ottawa, Correctional Service of Canada, December 1997.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/pblct/rights/human/toce-eng.shtml

Correctional Service of Canada. Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control in Canadian Federal Penitentiaries 2000-2001. Ottawa, A report of the Correctional Service of Canada’s Infectious Diseases Surveillance System, 2003.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/pblct/infectiousdiseases/en.pdf

Correctional Service of Canada. Institutional Profiles —  Isabel McNeill House, Ottawa, Correctional Service of Canada, 2002.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/facilit/institutprofiles/isabelmcneil_e.shtml

Correctional Service of Canada. Institutional Profiles —  Regional Psychiatric Centre, Ottawa, Correctional Service of Canada, 2002.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/facilit/institutprofiles/rpcprairie_e.shtml

Correctional Service of Canada. Making a Sustainable Difference in Corrections. Commissioner’s Speeches, Remarks by Lucie McClung Commissioner of CSC, Ottawa, Correctional Service Canada, November 8, 2003.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/speeches/commish/03-11-08_e.shtml

Correctional Service of Canada. “Correctional Service of Canada Releases Results of Inmate Survey at Joyceville Institution near Kingston, Ontario”, News Release. Ottawa, Correctional Service of Canada, June 1998.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/releases/98-06-05_e.shtml

Correctional Service of Canada. Offender Complaint and Grievance System Audit Report, Ottawa: Performance Assurance Sector, Correctional Service of Canada, June 2002.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/pblct/pa/complaint/complaint_e.pdf

Correctional Service of Canada. Regional Women’s Facilities Operational Plan, Ottawa: Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Women, Correctional Service of Canada, 2002.
NOT AVAILABLE ON INTERNET AT TIME OF PUBLICATION

Correctional Service of Canada. Secure Unit Operational Plan —  Intensive Intervention in a Secure Environment - National Implementation Working Group Intensive Intervention Strategy for Women Offenders, Ottawa: Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Women, Correctional Service of Canada, September 2003.
NOT AVAILABLE ON INTERNET AT TIME OF PUBLICATION

Correctional Service of Canada. Speakers’ Kit —  Module 10 Women Offenders, Ottawa, Correctional Service of Canada, August 2001.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/pubed/skit/skit10_e.shtml

Correctional Service of Canada. Task Force Report on Administrative Segregation - Commitment to Legal Compliance, Fair Decisions and Effective Results, Ottawa, Correctional Service of Canada, March 1997.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/pblct/taskforce/toc_e.shtml

Correctional Service of Canada. The Review of Offender Access to Religious and Spiritual Programs and Services. Ottawa: Performance Assurance Sector, Correctional Service of Canada, June 2002.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/pblct/pa/relig_spirit/relig_spirit_e.pdf

Correctional Service of Canada. Women convicted of homicide serving a federal sentence. Ottawa, Correctional Service of Canada, October 1998.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/prgrm/fsw/homicide/toc_e.shtml

Correctional Service of Canada. Working Together, CSC National Headquarters Working Group on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAS/E), Ottawa: Aboriginal Initiatives Branch, Correctional Service of Canada. N. d.
http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/prgrm/correctional/abissues/challenge/3_e.shtml

Daigle, Marc, Mylène Alarie and Patrick Lefebvre. “The problem of suicide among female prisoners”, Forum on Corrections Research. Ottawa: Research Branch, Correctional Service of Canada, Volume 11, Number 3, September 1999.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/pblct/forum/v11n3/v11n3a11e.pdf

DiCenso Anne Marie, Gisele Dias and Jacqueline Gahagan. Unlocking Our Futures: A National Study of Women, Prisons, HIV, and Hepatitis C, Toronto, Prisoners’ HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (PASAN), March 2003.
Available: http://www.pasan.org/Publications/Unlocking_Our_Futures.pdf

Dodge, Mary and Mark R. Pogrebin. “Collateral Costs of Imprisonment for Women: Complications of Reintegration”, The Prison Journal 42, Volume 81, Number 1, 2001.
NOT AVAILABLE ON INTERNET AT TIME OF PUBLICATION

Dockley, Anita, “Suicide and Self-harm Prevention: Repetitive Self-harm among Women in Prison”, Prison Service Journal, Issue 138
NOT AVAILABLE ON INTERNET AT TIME OF PUBLICATION

F/P/T Advisory Committee on Population Health. F/P/T Advisory Committee on AIDS, F/P/T Committee on Alcohol and Other Drug Issues, F/P/T Heads of Corrections Working Group on HIV/AIDS, Reducing the Harm Associated with Injection Drug Use in Canada, for the meeting of Ministers of Health, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Health Canada, Public Works and Government Services Canada, 2001.
Available: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hecs-sesc/cds/pdf/injectiondrug_e.pdf

Fillmore, Cathy, Colleen Anne Dell and Elizabeth Fry Society of Manitoba. Prairie Women, Violence and Self-Harm, Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence, Winnipeg, August 2000.
Available: http://www.pwhce.ca/pdf/self-harm.pdf

Hannah-Moffat, Kelly and Margaret Shaw. Taking Risks: Incorporating Gender and Culture into the Classification and Assessment of Federally Sentenced Women in Canada. Ottawa, Status of Women Canada, March 2001.
Available: http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/pubs/0662654323/200103_0662654323_e.pdf 

Hannah-Moffat, Kelly and Margaret Shaw, eds. An Ideal Prison? Critical Essays on Women’s Imprisonment in Canada, Halifax, Canada. Fernwood Publishing, 2000.
NOT AVAILABLE ON INTERNET AT TIME OF PUBLICATION

Health Canada. Canada’s Drug Strategy, The Office of Alcohol, Drugs and Dependency Issues, Ottawa, Public Works and Government Services Canada, 1998.
Available: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hecs-sesc/cds/pdf/englishstrategy.pdf

Kendall, Kathleen. “Time to think about Cognitive Behavioural Programmes”, Women and Punishment: The Struggle for Justice, Pat Carlen, ed. Portland, Or., Willan Pub., 2002.
NOT AVAILABLE ON INTERNET AT TIME OF PUBLICATION

Jackson, Michael. Justice Behind The Walls: Human Rights in Canadian Prisons, Toronto, Douglas and McIntyre, 2002.
Available: http://www.justicebehindthewalls.net

Jones, Esyllt and Anna Ste. Croix Rothney. Women’s Health and Social Inequality, Winnipeg, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives —  Manitoba Office, 2001.
Available: http://www.policyalternatives.ca

Laishes, Jane. Mental Health, Health Services, The 2002 Mental Health Strategy for Women Offenders. Ottawa: Women Offender Program, Correctional Service of Canada, 2002.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/prgrm/fsw/mhealth/toc_e.shtml

Larivière, Michel. “Antecedents and outcomes of correctional officers attitudes towards federal inmates: An exploration of person-organization fit”, Forum on Corrections Research, Ottawa: Research Branch, Correctional Service of Canada, Volume 14, Number 1, Academic Contributions, January 2002.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/pblct/forum/v14n1/v14n1a5e.pdf

Law Commission of Canada. Transforming Relationships Through Participatory Justice, Ottawa, Public Works and Government Services Canada, 2003.
Available: http://www.lcc.gc.ca/en/themes/sr/rj/participatory_justice/participatory_justice.pdf

Picard, Andre. “Native drug users hardest hit by HIV”, Globe and Mail, January 7 2003, Toronto, Globe and Mail, January 2003.
NOT AVAILABLE ON INTERNET AT TIME OF PUBLICATION

Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada. Report of the Royal Commission on The Status of Women in Canada, Ottawa, Information Canada, September, 1970.
NOT AVAILABLE ON INTERNET AT TIME OF PUBLICATION

Serin, Ralph C. and Colette Cousineau. “Programs for substance abusing offenders in Canada: A national survey”, Forum on Corrections Research Focusing on Alcohol and Drugs, Ottawa: Research Branch, Correctional Service of Canada, January 2001, Volume 13, Number 3.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/pblct/forum/v13n3/v13n3a18e.pdf

Solicitor General Canada. Corrections and Conditional Release Statistical Overview, Ottawa, Public Works and Government Services Canada, November 2002.
Available: http://www.sgc.gc.ca/publications/corrections/pdf/StatsNov2002_e.pdf

Status of Women Canada. The Dynamics of Women’s Poverty in Canada, Ottawa, Status of Women Canada, March 2000.
Available: http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/pubs/0662281594/200003_0662281594_e.pdf

Thérèse Lajeunesse and Associates. The Cross Gender Monitoring Project Federally Sentenced Women’s Facilities: Third and Final Annual Report. Ottawa, Correctional Service of Canada, September 2000. Recommendation No.1
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/prgrm/fsw/gender3/toc_e.shtml

Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada. Policy on the Prevention and Resolution of Harassment in the Workplace, Ottawa, Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada. n.d.
Available: http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/hrpubs/hw-hmt/hara_e.asp

Trevethan, Shelley. “Women in federal and provincial-territorial correctional facilities,” Forum on Corrections Research, Ottawa: Research Branch, Correctional Service of Canada, Volume 11, Number 3, Women Offenders, 1999.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/pblct/forum/v11n3/v11n3a3e.pdf

United States Department of Justice, National Institute of Corrections, Classification of Women Offenders: A National Assessment of Current Practices, Washington, DC, United States Department of Justice, August 2001.
Available: http://www.nicic.org/pubs/2001/017082.pdf

Vigilante, K. C. “Reduction in Recidivism of Incarcerated Women through Primary Care, Peer Counselling, and Discharge Planning”, Journal of Women’s Health, Volume 8, Number 3, 1999.
NOT AVAILABLE ON INTERNET AT TIME OF PUBLICATION

LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS, COMMISSIONER’S DIRECTIVES AND POLICY BULLETINS

Legislation and Regulations

Canadian Human Rights Act, 1985,
( http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/H-6/index.html )

Corrections and Conditional Release Act, 1992
( http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-44.6/index.html )

Corrections and Conditional Release Regulations, 1992
( http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-44.6/SOR-92-620/index.html )

Commissioner’s Directives

Correctional Service of Canada. “Classification of Institutions”, Commissioner’s Directive, Number 006. Ottawa, Correctional Service of Canada, August 2003.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/plcy/doc/006-cd.pdf

Correctional Service of Canada. “Code of Discipline”, Commissioner’s Directive, Number 60. Ottawa, Correctional Service of Canada, March 1994.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/plcy/doc/060-cd.pdf

Correctional Service of Canada. “Urinalysis Testing in Institution”, Commissioner’s Directive Number 566-10. Ottawa, Correctional Service of Canada, April 2003.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/plcy/doc/566-10-cd.pdf

Correctional Service of Canada. “Work Release”, Commissioner’s Directive, Number 740. Ottawa, Correctional Service of Canada, December 2001.
Available: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/plcy/doc/740-cd.pdf

SOP 700-04 Offenders Intake Assessment and Correctional Planning
( http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/plcy/sop/doc/700-04_e.pdf )

Policy Bulletin

Correctional Service of Canada. Policy Bulletin No. 96, Ottawa, Correctional Service of Canada. n.d - NOT AVAILABLE ON INTERNET AT TIME OF PUBLICATION

Correctional Service of Canada. Policy Bulletin No. 146, Ottawa, Correctional Service of Canada. March 2003 - NOT AVAILABLE ON INTERNET AT TIME OF PUBLICATION

Correctional Service of Canada. “Security Classification of Offenders Serving a Minimum Life Sentence for First or Second Degree Murder”, Policy Bulletin No. 107. Ottawa, Correctional Service of Canada, February 2001.


CASES

Andrews v. Law Society of British Columbia, [1989] 1 S.C.R. 143.

Board of Investigation into the Suicide of a Segregated Inmate in the Female Unit at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary on February 5, 2000, File 1410-2-413. Performance Assurance Sector, Correctional Service of Canada, August 2000.

Canada (Attorney General) v. Canada (Canadian Human Rights Commission), [2003] F.C.J. No. 17.

British Columbia (Public Service Employee Relations Commission) v. B.C.G.S.E.U., [1999] 3 S.C.R. 3.

British Columbia (Superintendent of Motor Vehicles) v. British Columbia (Council of Human Rights), [1999] 3 S.C.R. 868.

Eldridge v. British Columbia (Attorney General), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 624.

King v. Canada (unreported) July 5, 1989 - File: 89-21-PEN-11.

Quebec (Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse) v. Montreal (City) et al., [2000] 1 S.C.R. 665.

R. v. Golden, [2001] 3 S.C.R. 679.

Sauvé v. Canada (Chief Electoral Officer), [2002] 3 S.C.R. 519.

University of British Columbia v. Berg, [1993] 2 S.C.R. 353.

Weatherall v. Canada (Attorney General) [1993], 2 S.C.R. 872

Zurich Insurance Co. v. Ontario (Human Rights Commission), [1992] 2 S.C.R. 321.


ANNEX B - Submissions received by the Canadian Human Rights Commission for the Special Report

Submissions are available in the language in which they were received; the organizations responsible for the content are not all subject to the Official Languages Act.

Amnesty International Canada. Statement of Concern regarding Federally Sentenced Women in Canada, May 2003.

Calder, Gillian. Rethinking the Treatment of Federally Sentenced Women in a Substantive Equality Context, Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund — National Legal Committee, submitted for the Special Report on the Situation of the Federally Sentenced Women, Toronto, May 2003.

Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies. Response to the Canadian Human Rights Commission’s Consultation Paper for the Special Report on the Situation of Federally Sentenced Women, Ottawa, May 2003.

Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS). Submission to the Canadian Human Rights Commission for the Special Report on the Discrimination on the Basis of Sex, Race and Disability faced by Federally Sentenced Women, Ottawa, May 2003.

Canadian Federation of University Women. Comments, Ottawa, May 2003.

Correctional Service of Canada. National Response to the Canadian Human Rights Commission Consultation Paper, Ottawa, April 2003.

Jackson, Michael. Comments, West Coast Prison Justice Society, Abbotsford, February 2003.

MacDonald, Kelly A. FEDERALLY SENTENCED WOMEN: Canada’s Breach of Fiduciary Duty and Failure to Adhere to International Obligations, National Association of Women and the Law, Ottawa, May 2003.

McIvor, Sharon D. and Ellisa C. Johnson. Detailed Position of the Native Women’s Association of Canada on the Complaint regarding the Discriminatory Treatment of Federally Sentenced Women by the Government of Canada filed by the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, Ottawa, May 2003.

Monture-Angus, Patricia. The Lived Experience of Discrimination: Aboriginal Women Who Are Federally Sentenced, submitted to the Canadian Human Rights Commission by the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS), May 2003.

Office of the Correctional Investigator and Appendix B, Response to the Canadian Human Rights Commission's Consultation Paper for the Special Report on the Situation of Federally Sentenced Women, Ottawa, May 2003.

Peters, Yvonne. Federally Sentenced Women with Mental Disabilities: A Dark Corner in Canadian Human Rights, prepared for DisAbled Women’s Network (DAWN), February 2003.

Préville, Marie-Josée, Union of Canadian Correctional Officers — Joliette Local, Comments for the Special Report on the Situation of Federally Sentenced Women, Quebec, April 2003.

Rauch, Sarah J. Comments, Abbotsford, January 2003.

St. Leonard’s Society of Canada. Comments, Toronto, April 2003.

Strength in Sisterhood. Complaint Regarding the Discriminatory Treatment of Federally Sentenced Women by the Government of Canada and its agent, the Correctional Service of Canada, Delta, April 2003.

The National Council of Women in Canada. Comments, Ottawa.

Union of Solicitor General Employees PSAC. Comments, Ottawa, April 2003.

Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund. The Tip of the Discrimination Iceberg: Barriers to Disclosure of the Abuse and Mistreatment of Federally Sentenced Women, A Submission by the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), Toronto, LEAF, May 2003.