Resources

One of our identified project goals is to generate new evidence on the reproductive, sexual, and maternal-child health needs of incarcerated womxn. However, we recognize previous contributions in related areas as foundational to our research.

Please look below to see the variety of resources that help inform and guide our work.

1. Experiences and health care experiences of incarcerated women

Nickel, N. C., Enns, J. E., Brownell, M., Quddus, F., Walld, R., Brownell, E., Turnbull, L., Casiano, H., Urquia, M., Decaire, E., Mahar, A., Wall-Wieler, E., Campbell, R., Durksen, A., Lee, J. B., Tso Deh, M., Ferland, I., Granger, M., & Phillips-Beck, W.

(2024). Birth Outcomes Among First Nations Birthing Parents Incarcerated While Pregnant: A Linked Administrative Data Study From Manitoba, Canada. Women's Health Issues. Advance online publication.

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Correctional Service of Canada

(2013). Survey of Federally Sentenced Aboriginal Women in Community.

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Eljdupovic-Guzina, G.

(1999). Parenting roles and experiences of abuse in women offenders: Review of the offender intake assessments. Correctional Service of Canada.

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Green, N.

(2000). Profile of an Indigenous woman serving time in a federal institution. Correctional Service of Canada.

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McDonagh, D.

(1999). Federally sentenced women maximum security interview project: “Not letting the time do you”. Correctional Service of Canada.

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Morin, S.

(1999). Federally sentenced Aboriginal women in maximum security: What happened to the promises of “Creating Choices”? Correctional Service of Canada.

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Paynter, M., Heggie, C., Matheson, L., Rillie, C., Beals, D., & Bray, M.

(2022). Maternal incarceration in a provincial prison in Canada: A qualitative study. Journal of advanced nursing, 78(7), 2123–2138.

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Paynter, M., Bagg, M. L., & Heggie, C.

(2021). Invisible women: correctional facilities for women across Canada and proximity to maternity services. International Journal of Prisoner Health., 17(2), 69–86.

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Paynter, M., Heggie, C., McKibbon, S., Martin-Misener, R., Iftene, A., & Murphy, G. T.

(2022). Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes among Incarcerated Women in Canada: A Scoping Review. The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres, 54(1), 72–86.

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The Wesley Group.

(2012). Marginalized: The Aboriginal women’s experience in federal corrections.

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Carter Ramirez, A., Liauw, J., Costescu, D., Holder, L., Lu, H., & Kouyoumdjian, F. G.

(2020). Infant and Maternal Outcomes for Women Who Experience Imprisonment in Ontario, Canada: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Journal of obstetrics and gynecology Canada: JOGC, 42(4), 462–472.

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Correctional Service of Canada

(2013). Survey of Federally Sentenced Aboriginal Women in Community.

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Eljdupovic-Guzina, G.

(1999). Parenting roles and experiences of abuse in women offenders: Review of the offender intake assessments. Correctional Service of Canada.

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Green, N.

(2000). Profile of an Indigenous woman serving time in a federal institution. Correctional Service of Canada.

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McDonagh, D.

(1999). Federally sentenced women maximum security interview project: “Not letting the time do you”. Correctional Service of Canada.

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Morin, S.

(1999). Federally sentenced Aboriginal women in maximum security: What happened to the promises of “Creating Choices”? Correctional Service of Canada.

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Paynter, M., Heggie, C., Matheson, L., Rillie, C., Beals, D., & Bray, M.

(2022). Maternal incarceration in a provincial prison in Canada: A qualitative study. Journal of advanced nursing, 78(7), 2123–2138.

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Paynter, M., Bagg, M. L., & Heggie, C.

(2021). Invisible women: correctional facilities for women across Canada and proximity to maternity services. International Journal of Prisoner Health., 17(2), 69–86.

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Paynter, M., Heggie, C., McKibbon, S., Martin-Misener, R., Iftene, A., & Murphy, G. T.

(2022). Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes among Incarcerated Women in Canada: A Scoping Review. The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres, 54(1), 72–86.

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The Wesley Group.

(2012). Marginalized: The Aboriginal women’s experience in federal corrections.

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2: Mother-child program

Brennan, S.

(2014). Canada’s Mother-Child Program: Examining its emergence, usage, and current state. Canadian Graduate Journal of Sociology and Criminology, 3(1), 11-33.

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Miller, K.

(2017). Canada's Mother-Child program and incarcerated Aboriginal mothers: How and why the program is inaccessible to aboriginal female offenders. Canadian Family Law Quarterly, 37(1), (pp. 1-23).

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Paynter, M., Heggie, C., Martin-Misener, R., Iftene, A., Tomblin Murphy, G.

(2022). Advocates’ perspectives on the Canadian prison mother child program. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 2, 2667-3215.

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Paynter, M., Martin-Misener, R., Iftene, A., Tomblin Murphy, G.

(2022). The Correctional Services Canada Institutional Mother-Child program: A look at the numbers. The Prison Journal, 102(5), 610-625.

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3: Children of Incarcerated Persons

Canadian Coalition for Children of Incarcerated Parents

The Canadian Coalition for Children with Incarcerated Parents (CCCIP) comprises a network of organizations and individuals and advocates for children’s rights and seeks to create standard safeguards that ensure the best interests of the child are a primary consideration in all decisions and at every stage of the justice system in Canada.

Knudsen, E. M.

(2018). The systemic invisibility of children of prisoners. In Condry, R., & Smith, P. S. (Eds.). (2018). Prisons, Punishment, and the Family: Towards a New Sociology of Punishment? (pp. 288-304). Oxford University Press.

Knudsen, E. M.

(2019). The curious invisibility of Canadian children of prisoners. Criminologie, 52(1), (pp. 177–202).

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Knudsen, E. M.

(2019). Hearing children’s voices in studies of familial incarceration: Experiences from a Canadian study. In Hutton., M., & Moran, D. (Eds.) (2019). The Palgrave Handbook of Prison and the Family, Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology.

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Mussell, L.

(2022). Estimating the number of children with a biological parent in Canadian custody, 2019/20. University of Ottawa.

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4: Barriers to research within the prison system

Watson, T. M.

(2015). Research access barriers as reputational risk management: A case study of censorship in corrections. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 57(3), 330–362.

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Watson, T. M., & van der Meulen, E.

(2019). Research in carceral contexts: Confronting access barriers and engaging former prisoners. Qualitative Research, 19(2), 182–198.

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5: Government & Legal System

The Indigenous Justice Strategy

In consultation and cooperation with Indigenous and provincial and territorial partners, Justice Canada is developing an Indigenous Justice Strategy to address systemic discrimination and the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the justice system.

The BC First Nations Justice Strategy

The BC First Nations Justice Strategy (the Strategy) signed March 6, 2020, brings First Nations and British Columbia into partnership to address poor justice system outcomes for First Nations in BC.

Government of Canada

(2008, June 27). Minister Day tightens rules for Mother-Child program to ensure child protection [Press release].

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6: Arts-Based Methodologies

Kenny, B., Hoban, E., Pors, P., Williams, J.

2019). A qualitative exploration of the sexual and reproductive health knowledge of adolescent mothers from Indigenous populations in Ratanak Kiri province, Cambodia. Rural & Remote Health, 19, 5240.

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Lys, C., Gesink, D., Strike, C., Larkin, J.

(2018). Body mapping as a youth sexual health intervention and data collection tool. Qualitative Health Research, 28(7), 1185-1198.

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Lys, C.

(2018). Exploring coping strategies and mental health support systems among female youth in the northwest territories using body mapping. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 77, 1466604.

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Senior, K., Helmer, J., Chenhall, R., Burbank, V.

(2014). 'Young, clean, and safe?' Young people's perceptions of risk from sexually transmitted infections in regional, rural and remote Australia. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 16, 453-66.

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Wallace, H. J., McDonald, S., Belton, S., Miranda, A. I., da Costa, E., da Conceicao Matos, L., Henderson, H., Taft, A.

(2018). Body mapping to explore reproductive ethno-physiological beliefs and knowledge of contraception in Timor-Leste. Qualitative Health Research, 28, 1171-1184.

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Yuen, F.

(2016). Collage: An Arts-Based Method for Analysis, Representation, and Social Justice. Journal of Leisure Research, 48(4), 338–346.

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