Investigation finds Ontario jails overcrowded with big increase in women prisoners

A CBC News data investigation into Ontario jails found a 38 per cent jump in the average number of women incarcerated since ...

Women's rights group seeks to challenge federal policy allowing trans women in female prisons

A women’s rights organization is seeking permission from the Federal Court to challenge the government’s policy allowing ...

Ontario jails set to hit overcrowding record as bail reform looms, data shows

Ontario jails are heading toward a record year for overcrowding, remand populations and lockdowns just as politicians debate ...
The Economist

Canada’s indigenous-style prisons are designed to right historical wrongs

Indigenous men have the highest rates of recidivism of any group in Canada. Healing lodges are meant to help break this cycle. Men who go through them are half as likely to end up back in jail ...
Mother Jones

Republicans Want More Pregnant Women in Prisons. A New Book Describes What It’s Like.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Women are the fastest-growing population of incarcerated people. And if Republicans ...