Time for accountability: effective oversight of women's prisons

Numerous reports and commissions of inquiry have documented the need for oversight and accountability mechanisms to redress illegalities and rights violations in Canada's women's prisons. This article examines the recent troubled history of women's imprisonment in which the calls for...

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Authors: Parkes, Debra (Author) ; Pate, Kim (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
Published: 2006
In: Canadian journal of criminology and criminal justice
Year: 2006, Volume: 48, Issue: 2, Pages: 251-285
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Keywords:
Frauenstrafvollzug
Gefangenenrecht
Kanada
Aufsichtsbehörden
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Summary:Numerous reports and commissions of inquiry have documented the need for oversight and accountability mechanisms to redress illegalities and rights violations in Canada's women's prisons. This article examines the recent troubled history of women's imprisonment in which the calls for meaningful accountability and oversight have arisen, outlines the necessary criteria for any effective oversight body within this correctional context, and measures some of the key recommendations against those criteria. The authors conclude that the judicial oversight model and sanction proposed by Justice Louise Arbour in 1996 is the proposal that best meets the criteria and therefore ought to be implemented. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:1707-7753