National Adult Literacy Database

Handbook for Women Serving Federal Sentences

Authors: Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, Native Women's Association of Canada, Strength in Sisterhood

This handbook was produced for use in the prison advocacy training part of the Human Rights in Action (HRIA) project. The HRIA project is dedicated to ensuring that the human rights of all prisoners are protected, especially those of women prisoners who are racialized and those with disabling mental health issues. The purpose of this booklet is to provide basic information about how the law applies to women in prison and to aid in the training of prisoner advocates. Prisoner advocates include current prisoners who advocate for themselves and their peers while inside, as well as ex-prisoners and activist allies in the community who also advocate with and for women inside.

This handbook includes the following sections:
Part I - Introduction (The law in Canada and prisoner advocacy)
Part II - Arriving in prison
Part III - Protecting your rights
Part IV - Restrictive measures
Part V - Conditional release
Part IV - Remedies

Added: 2008-11-12

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Authors: Janet Isserlis

The following material is intended to guide and be a resource for those who use the textbook Prison Voices to teach literacy at varying levels primarily within the prison environment.

Added: 2006-05-31

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This handbook provides information on various aspects of the federal Youth Criminal Justice Act, which became law on April 1, 2003. This book includes the following chapters:

- Introduction - age group to whom the Act applies and offences covered by the Act
- Purpose and principles
- Legal rights
- Extrajudical measures
- Youth justice committees
- Conferences
- Classification of offences
- Youth justice court
- The courtroom

Added: 2008-07-18

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