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Creating Choices or Repeating History: Canadian Female Offenders and Correctional Reform

This article examines the conclusions of a recent Task Force on women in Canadian prisons. The Task Force helped to illuminate the plight of women, especially Native offenders (who represent a disproportionate number of incarcerated women in Canada). Although the Task Force recommendations for restructuring women’s imprisonment are laudable, the author outlines practical difficulties with attempts to implement them.

incarcerated women, Canada

Citation: Social Justice Vol. 18, No. 3 (1991): 185-204