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Cromwell, Thomas, "Habeas Corpus and Correctional Law: An Introduction" 3 Queen's Law Journal no. 2, 1976-7, 295.

Dandurand, Yvon, "Ethnic Group Members and the Correctional System: A Question of Human Rights" 16 Canadian Journal of Criminology and Corrections 1974, 35.

Jull, Kenneth, "Sentencing, Corrections and Conditional Release: Principles or a Penitentiary by Any Other Name" 34 Criminal Law Quarterly 1991-2, 443.

Landau. Tamy, "Due Process, Legalism and Inmates' Rights: A Cautionary Note" 6 Canadian Criminology Forum 1984, 151.

Mandel, Michael, "The Great Repression: Criminal Punishment in the Nineteen-Eighties" in Nick Larsen (ed.) The Canadian Criminal Justice System:
An Issues Approach to the Administration of Justice
(Toronto: Canadian Scholar's Press Inc., 19950, 241.

Mason, Allan, "Solitary Confinement, Remission and Prison Discipline" 75 Criminal Reports (3d) 1990, 356.

Millard, Christopher, "The Philosophy, the Politics and the Practice of Prisoners' Rights" 5 Canadian Criminology Forum 1, 1982, 11.

Price, Ronald, "Doing Justice to Corrections? Prisoners, Parolees and the Canadian Courts" 3 Queen's Law Journal no. 3, 1977, 214.

Solicitor General of Canada, Correctional Law Review, (Ottawa: Solicitor General of Canada, 1985).

Abolition of Corporal Punishment

Bonavero, Leonard, "Corporal Punishment in Federal Institutions in Canada" (unpublished chronology of references).

Canada, Reports of the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons on Capital Punishment, Corporal Punishment and Lotteries, 1956.

Canada, Final Report on Capital Punishment,
Special Joint Committee on Capital Punishment
Corporal Punishment and Lotteries
, 1956.

Canada, Report of a Committee Appointed to Inquire into the Principles and Procedures Followed in the Remission Service of the Department of Justice Canada, 1956. (Garson)

Canada, Report of the Canadian Committee on Corrections,
Towards Unity: Criminal Justice and Corrections
1969. (Ouimet)

Correctional Service Canada, "Crime and Punishment: A pictorial history" Part I of VI, April 15, 1985.

Staddon, John, "On Responsibility and Punishment" Atlantic Monthly, February 1995, 88.

Woods, Gerald, "The Quality of Mercy: The Reform Tradition in Canadian Federal Corrections" (unpublished) (HV 9504 W6 1992)

Abolition of the Death Penalty

Beaudoin, Gerald and Errol Mendes (eds.) The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Third Edition (Toronto: Carswell, 1996), 9-28.

Branca, The Honourable Mr. Justice Angelo, "Capital Punishment" 24 Chitty's Law Journal 2, 1976, 37.

Canada, Final Report on Capital Punishment,
Special Joint Committee on Capital Punishment
Corporal Punishment and Lotteries
, 1956.

Canadian Criminology and Corrections Association, "The Death Penalty" 15 Canadian Journal of Criminology and Corrections, 1973, 118.

Fattah, Ezzat, "Canada's Successful Experience with the Abolition of the Death Penalty" 25 Canadian Journal of Criminology 1983, 42.

Gayer, Honourable Jean Pierrre, Capital Punishment: New Material, Ministry of the Solicitor General, 1965-72.

Jayewardence, Dr. C., "The Canadian Movement Against the Death Penalty" 14 Canadian Journal of Criminology and Corrections, 1972, 366.

Greenland, Cyril, "The Last Public Execution in Canada: Eight Skeletons in the Closet of the Canadian Criminal Justice System" 29 Criminal Law Quarterly, 1986-7, 415.

Kirkpatrick, A.M., "The Abolition of the Death Penalty" 13 Criminal Law Quarterly 1970-1, 308.

Strange, Carolyn, "The Lottery of Death: Capital Punishment 1867-1976" 23 Manitoba Law Journal, no. 3, 1996, 594.

Aboriginal Elders in Federal Penitentiaries

Beane, Millard, Correctional Services of Canada, Interview, July 3, 1998.

Canada, Task Force on Aboriginal Peoples in Federal Corrections, Ministry of Supply and Services Canada, 1988.

Correctional Law Review, Correctional Issues Affecting Native Peoples: Working Paper Number 7 (Ottawa: Solicitor General of Canada, 1988).

Correctional Services of Canada, "Update on Native-oriented Programs for Native Offenders" 14 Let's Talk 5, 1989, 6.

Correctional Services of Canada, The Healing Lodge: Final Operational Plan, 1993.

Correctional Services Canada, Legal Education for Managers on the Corrections
and Conditional Release Act and its Global Context:
Instructor's Manual and Reference Guide
, January 1997.

Faith, Karlene, "Aboriginal Women's Healing Lodge: Challenge to Penal Correctionalism?" 6 Journal of Human Justice 2, 1995, 79.

Jackson, Michael, Locking Up Natives in Canada
- A Report of the Committee of the Canadian
Bar Association on Imprisonment and Release
, June 1988.

LaPrairie, Carol, Examining Aboriginal Corrections in Canada (Ministry of the Solicitor General: Canada) 1996.

LeClair, Marc, Care and Custody of Aboriginal Offenders:
Conference Report of the National Symposium on Section 81,
Corrections and Conditional Release Act
, prepared for Corporate Advisor Aboriginal Programming, Correctional Services of Canada, February 1995.

National Film Board of Canada, The Spirit Within, 1991.

Native Advisory Committee, Response to the Report of the Task Force on
Aboriginal Peoples in Federal Corrections
, (Canada: Ministry of the Solicitor General) 1989.

Nielsen, Marianne, "Canadian Correctional Policy and Native Inmates: The Control of Social Dynamite" 22 Canadian Ethnic Studies no. 3, 1990, 110.

Waldram, James, The Way of the Pipe: Aboriginal Spirituality
and Symbolic Healing in Canadian Prisons
(Ontario: broadview press, 1997).

Canadian Bill of Rights

Australia Human Rights Commission, Prisoners Rights: A Study
of Human Rights and Commonwealth Prisoners,
Occasional Paper no. 12, September 1986.

Berger, Stan, "The Application of the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause Under the Canadian Bill of Rights" 24 McGill Law Journal no. 2, 1978, 161. (Note: this article not copied in file).

Goff, Colin, Criminal Justice in Canada: An Introduction (Ontario: ITP Nelson, 1997).

Hogg, Peter, Constitutional Law of Canada, Fourth Edition (Toronto: Carswell, 1996).

Jackson, Michael, "Cruel and Unusual Treatment of Punishment?" U.B.C. Law Review, Charter Edition, 1982, 189.

Kaiser, Gordon, "The Inmate as Citizen: Imprisonment and the Loss of Civil Rights in Canada" 1 Queen's Law Journal 2, 1971-2, 208.

Leon, Jeffrey, "Cruel and Unusual Treatment of Punishment: Sociological Jurisprudence and the Canadian Bill of Rights" 36 U. of T. Faculty Law Review 1978, 222.

MacKlem, P. et al, Canadian Constitutional Law, Second Edition (Toronto: Emond Montgomery), 1997.

O'Reilly, James, "Prisoners as Possessors of Rights in Canadian Law" LL.M Thesis, University of Ottawa, 1988.

Price, Ronald, "Brining the Rule of Law to Corrections" 16 Canadian Journal of Criminology and Corrections, 1974, 209.

Tarnopolsky, Walter, "Just Deserts or Crule and Unusal Treatment of Punishment? Where Do We Look for Guidance?" 10 Ottawa Law Review 1, 1978, 7.

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Alderson, Douglas, "The Charter, Fundamental Justice and Prison Administration: The Common Law's Doppelganger" 34 Criminal Law Quarterly 1991-2, 12.

Beaudoin, Gerald and Errol Mendes (eds.) The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Third Edition (Toronto: Carswell, 1996).

Campbell, Mary, "Revolution and Counter-revolution in Canadian's Prisoners' Rights" 2 Can. Crim. L.R. 1998, 285.

Cole, David, and Allan Manson, Release from Imprisonment: The Law of Sentencing, Parole and Judicial Review (Toronto: Carswell, 1990).

Correctional Service of Canada, Legal Education for Managers on the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and its Global Context: Instructor's Manual and Reference Guide, January 1997.

Correctional Service of Canada, "How will it affect the Service? The Charter of Rights and Freedoms becomes law", 7 Let's Talk 12, 1982.

Dickson, Brian, "The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Context and Evolution", in, Gerald Beaudoin and Errol Mendes (eds.) The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Third Edition (Toronto: Carswell, 1996), 1.

Ekstedt, John and Margaret Jackson, The Keepers and the Kept: Introduction to Corrections in Canada (Simon Fraser University, School of Criminology: ITP Nelson, 1997).

Fichaud, Joel, "Analysis of the Charter and Its Application to Labour Law" 8 Dalhousie Law Journal 2, 1984, 402.

Funston, Bernard and Eugene Meehan, Canada's Constitutional Law: In A Nutshell (Toronto: Carswell, 1994).

Garant, Patrice, "Fundamental Rights, Fundamental Justice" in, Gerald Beaudoin and Errol Mendes (eds.) The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Third Edition (Toronto: Carswell, 1996), 9-60.

Green, L.C., "The Canadian Charter of Rights and International Law" 20 The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, 1982, 3.

Hogg, Peter, Constitutional Law of Canada, Fourth Student Edition, (Toronto: Carswell, 1996).

Humphrey, John, "The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and International Law" 50 Saskatchewan Law Review 1, 1985-6, 13.

Jackman, Martha, "Fundamental Interests and Fundamental Justice - The Rights to Participate in Decision-Making in Canadian Prisons: Piche v. Solicitor General of Canada" 24 U.B.C. Law Review 2, 1990, 357.

MacKay, Wayne, "Inmates' Rights: Lost in the Maze of Prison Bureaucracy?" 11 Dalhousie Law Journal 1, 1987, 698.

Mandel, Michael, "The Legalization of Prison Discipline in Canada" 26 Crime and Social Justice 1987, 8.

O'Connor, Fergus (Chip) and Leslie Wright, "Mirror, Mirror, on the Prison Wall! How Fair Are We? An Analysis of the Common Law Duty to Act Fairly and the Charter Obligation to Comply with the Principles of Fundamental Justice" 26 Criminal Law Quarterly, 1983-4, 318.

O'Connor, Fergus (Chip), "The Impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on Parole in Canada" 10 Queen's Law Journal 1984-5, 336.

O'Reilly, James, "Prisoners as Possessors of Rights in Canadian Law" LL.M Thesis, University of Ottawa, 1988.

Roach, Kent, "The Charter and the Criminal Process" in Jane Gladstone, Richard Ericson and Clifford Shearing (eds.) Criminology: A Reader's Guide (Toronto: University of Toronto: Centre of Criminology, 1991).

Russell, Paul, "Cruel and Unusual Treatment or Punishment: The Use of Section 12 in Prison Litigation" 43 U. of T. Faculty Law Review 1985, 185.

Ryan, H.R.S., "The Impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on the Canadian Correctional System" Canadian Human Rights Yearbook 1983, 99.

Schabas, William, International Human Rights Law and the Canadian Charter (Scarborough: Carswell, 1996).

Tait, John, "Inmate's Rights" 8 Justice Report 1, 1991, 6.

Van Den Assem, Ben, "Dignity Through Respect: Canada's Approach to Protecting the Human Rights of Prisoners", Prepared for International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation, October 3-7, 1992 and for Correctional Service of Canada.

Corrections and Conditional Release Act

Campbell, Mary, "Revolution and Counter-revolution in Canadian's Prisoners' Rights" 2 Can. Crim. L.R. 1998, 285.

Canada, A Framework for the Correctional Law Review: Working Paper No. 2, June 1986.

Canada, Corrections and Conditional Release Act (Bill C-36) Training Modules 1992.

Canada, Corrections and Conditional Release Act: Various Backgrounders.

Canada, Towards A Just, Peaceful and Safe Society: The Corrections and Conditional Release Act Five Years Later, Consultation Paper, 1998.

Correctional Service of Canada, Instructor's Manual and Reference Guide: Legal Education for Managers on the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and its Global Context, January 1997.

Jull, Kenneth, "Sentencing, Corrections and Conditional Release: Principles or a Penitentiary by Any Other Name?" 34 Criminal Law Quarterly 1991-2, 443.

Glaremin, Roy, "A New Act for Prisons and Parole" 5 Journal of Prisoners on Prisons 1, 1993, 26.

Independent Chairpersons for Adjudicating Disciplinary Matters

Canada, Penitentiary Service, Study Group on Dissociation, James Vantour, Chair, 1975.

Canada, Report to Parliament by the Sub-Committee on the Penitentiary System in Canada, Mark MacGuigan, Chairperson, 1976-7.

Canada, Correctional Services of Canada, Independent Chairperson Program Evaluation Report, May 1992.

Canadian Bar Association, Committee on Imprisonment and Release, Justice Behnd the Walls: A Report of the Canadian Bar Association Committee on Imprisonment and Reelase, June 1988.

Haskell, Charles, Legal Services, Corrections Services of Canada, Disciplinary Manual for Staff Assistants (unpublished).

Jackson, Michael, "Justice Behind the Walls - A Study of the Disciplinary Process in a Canadian Penitentiary" 12 Osgood Hall Law Journal 1, 1974, 31.

MacDonald, Donald, Corrections in Canada Since the MacGuigan Report, Prepared for the Standing Committee on Justice and Solicitor General, 1987.

Office of the Correctional Investigator

Campbell, Mary, "Revolution and Counter-revolution in Canadian's Prisoners' Rights" 2 Can. Crim. L.R. 1998, 285.

Canada, "The Correctional Investigator", Corrections and Conditional Release Act: Backgrounder No. 12.

Correctional Investigator of Canada, Facts About the Correctional Investigator, 1973.

Law Society of Upper Canada, Rights of Prisoners: Edited Proceedings from the programme held on December 4, 1976.

Martineau and the Duty to Act Fairly

Cole, David, and Allan Manson, Release from Imprisonment: The Law of Sentencing, Parole and Judicial Review (Toronto: Carswell, 1990).

Correctional Services Canada, Legal Education for Managers on the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and its Global Context: Instructor's Manual and Reference Guide, January 1997.

Landau, Tamy, "Due Process, Legalism and Inmate's Rights: A Cautionary Note" 6 Canadian Criminology Forum, 1984, 151.

Mullen, David, "Martineau and Butters v. Matsqui Inmate Disciplinary Board: Its Potential Impact of the Jurisdiction of the Trial Division of the Federal Court" 24 McGill Law Journal, 1978, 92.

O'Connor, Fergus (Chip) and Leslie Wright, "Mirror, Mirror, on the Prison Wall! How Fair Are We? An Analysis of the Common Law Duty to Act Fairly and the Charter Obligation to Comply with the Principles of Fundamental Justice" 26 Criminal Law Quarterly, 1983-4, 318.

Pelletier, Benoit, "The Duty to Act Fairly in Penitentiaries" 2 Forum: On Correctional Research, 2, 1990, 25.

Solicitor General of Canada, A Framework for the Correctional Law Review: Working Paper No. 2, June 1986.

Parole Act and the National Parole Board

Canada, Report of a Committee Appointed to Inquire into the Principles and Proceudres Followed in the Remission Service of the Department of Justice of Canada 1956. (Fauteux Report)

Canada, Corrections and Conditional Release Act: Backgrounder No. 10, 1992.

Cole, David, and Allan Manson, Release from Imprisonment: The Law of Sentencing, Parole and Judicial Review (Toronto: Carswell, 1990).

Commissioner of Penitentiaries, "History of Parole" vol. 3, Federal Corrections 1, 1963.

Maloney, Arthur, "Remission, Ticket of Leave and Parole" 27 Canadian Bar Review no. 9, 1949.

National Parole Board, Board Orientation Manual, 1993.

National Parole Board, Facts: Types of Release, 1997,

O'Connor, Fergus, "The Impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on Parole in Canada" 10 Queens Law Journal 1984-5, 336.

O'Reilly, James, "Prisoners as Possessors of Rights in Canadian Law" LL.M Thesis, University of Ottawa, 1988.

Parole Board of Canada, The Parole Board, 1978.

Price, Ronald, "Doing Justice to Corrections? Prisoners, Parolees and the Canadian Courts" 3 Queens Law Journal 1977, 214.

Wilson, Ted, "History of Conditional Release" July 1987 (unpublished).

Regional Facilities for Women Offenders

Adelberg, Ellen, "Not Enough: A Review of Services for Women in Conflict with the Law" 13 Resources for Feminist Research: Special Issue: Women and the Criminal Justice System 4, 1986/6, 56.

Arbour, Honourable Louise, (Commissioner), Commission of Inquiry into Certain Events at The Prison for Women in Kingston, (Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1996).

Canada, Creating Choices: The Report of the Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women, April 1990.

Correctional Service of Canada, Overviews: Regional Facilities for Federally Sentenced Women, December 1995.

Correctional Service of Canada, Proceedings: National Workshop to Develop a Community Strategy for Federally Sentenced Women, 1996.

Correctional Service of Canada, CSC Action Plan: Arbour Recommendations, April 1998.

Culhane, Clair, "Women and Prisons" 13 Resources for Feminist Research: Special Issue: Women and the Criminal Justice System 4, 1986/6, 32.

Manson, Allan, "Scrutiny from the Outside: The Arbour Commission, the Prison for Women and the Correctional Service of Canada" 1 Can. Crim. L. R., 1996, 321.

Mayhew, Jo-Ann, "P4W: Correcting past mistakes" 7 breaking the silence 4, 7.

Recollet, Nancy, "Native Women and the Criminal Justice System: An Increasing Minority" 13 Resources for Feminist Research: Special Issue: Women and the Criminal Justice System 4, 1986/6, 16.

Rodgers, Karen, "The Political Discourse on Women Prisoners and the Issue of Co-Corrections in Canada" Published by Spirals, Women's Studies Program, University of Ottawa, 1994.

Stableforth, Nancy, "Women Offenders" 12 Justice Report 3, 1997, 15.

Strange, Carolyn, ""The Criminal and Fallen of Their Sex": The Establishment of Canada's First Women's Prison, 1874-1901" 1 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, 1985, 79.

Strange, Carolyn, "Unlocking the Doors on Women's Prison History" 13 Resources for Feminist Research: Special Issue: Women and the Criminal Justice System 4, 1986/6, 13.

Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners

Clark, Roger, The United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Program: Formation of Standards and Efforts at Their Implementation (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994).

Correctional Services of Canada, Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners and Human Rights in Federal Corrections: The Case for Compliance (Ottawa: CSC, 1997) (unpublished).

Penal Reform International, Making standards work: an international handbook on good prison practice, The Hague, March 1995.

Women Correctional Officers in Male Institutions

Caren, George, Female Correctional Officers in Adult Male Correctional Institutions: Professional Project, May, 1981.

Correctional Services of Canada, Women as Correctional Officers, pamphlet.

Correctional Services of Canada, Employment of Female Correctional Officers in Male Institutions, November 13, 1980.

Correctional Services of Canada, Employment of Female Correctional Officers in Male Institutions, December 12, 1984.

Correctional Services of Canada, Literature Review: Female Correctional Officers in Male Institutions, January 1985.

Correctional Services of Canada, News Release, "Mary Dawson Appointed Director of Warkworth Institution", May 28, 1990.

Farnworth, Louise, "Women Doing a Man's Job: Female Prison Officers Working in a Male Institution" 25 ANZJ Crim, 1992, 278.

Kingston Whig Standard, "Prison For Women Superintendent Has Open Mind Approach" Wednesday, November 30, 1960.

Kingston Whig Standard, "Kingston Pen's first female warden will be tough, firm and reasonable" 1980.

Owen, Barbara, "Socialization Experiences of Women Correctional Officers" 13 Resources for Feminist Research: Special Issue: Women and the Criminal Justice System 4, 1986/6, 53.

Rison, Richard, "Women as High-Security Officers: Gender-Neutral Employment in High-Security Prisons" Federal Prisons Journal, Winter, 1994, 19.

Sakowski, Marie, "Women Guards in Canada: A study of the First Women to Work in a Federal Penitentiary for Male Offenders" 13 Resources for Feminist Research: Special Issue: Women and the Criminal Justice System 4, 1986/6, 52.

Szockyj, E., "Working in a Man's World: Women Correctional Officers in an Institution for Men" in Nick Larsen, (ed.) The Canadian Criminal Justice System: An Issue Approach to the Administration of Justice" (Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 1995), 351.