Women Offender Programs and Issues

Ten-Year Status Report on Women’s Corrections
1996-2006

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Table of Contents

Commissioner’s Foreword

Message from the Deputy Commissioner for Women

Introduction

Institutional Profiles

Profile of Women Offenders

Principal Themes: Progress, Challenges and Future Direction

• Human Rights
• Cross-Gender Staffing Issues
• Aboriginal Women Offenders
• Security Classification
• Management of Security Incidents in Womenís Institutions
• Administrative Segregation
• Program Strategy for Women Offenders
• Community Transition

List of Acronyms

ANNEXES

Annex A
CSC Action Plan Update – March 2006
Commission of Inquiry into Certain Events at the Prison for Women in Kingston,
The Honourable Louise Arbour, Commissioner, April 1996

• Recommendations 1–3
• Recommendation 4
• Recommendations 5 –6
• Recommendations 7 –10
• Recommendations 11 –14

Annex B
CSC Action Plan Update – March 2006
Reintegration of Women Offenders,
Report of the Auditor General of Canada to the House of Commons,
Office of the Auditor General of Canada, April 2003

Annex C
CSC Action Plan Update – March 2006
The 26th Report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts,
November 2003

Annex D
CSC Action Plan Update – March 2006
Protecting Their Rights – A Systemic Review of Human Rights in Correctional Services for Federally Sentenced Women Canadian Human Rights Commission, December 2003

• Recommendations 1–9
• Recommendations 10 –19