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By the late 1980s, Canada was at the forefront of women’s prison reform: it was poised to be the first country to integrate feminist principles into the development of a new prison regime for women (Hannah-Moffat and Shaw, 2000). The design of this new model was laid out in the document Creating Choices: The Report of the Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women (Task Force, 1990). This plan for prison redevelopment symbolised a unique turn in the history of the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). For the first time, the government partnered with women’s organisations in a collaborative effort to advance a new vision for women’s punishment. This collaboration with community organisations was championed as evidence of an opening of the political process that would invite women’s prison advocates and organisations to play a greater role in prison reform.
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Maurutto, P., Hannah-Moffat, K. (2016). Women’s Voluntary Organisations and the Canadian Penal ‘Culture of Control’. In: Hucklesby, A., Corcoran, M. (eds) The Voluntary Sector and Criminal Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137370679_8
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