A program that lets incarcerated mothers record bedtime stories for their children, has restarted after a three-year hiatus to the delight of a former prisoner who used the service. When Jodi-Lynn Joseph

The prison system in Canada is a large scale travesty of justice, a modern-day asylum and residential school where you go in wanting to kill yourself, and the conditions just make you want to kill yourself

The number of women in federal prisons has jumped significantly in Canada in the last decade, and advocates say that's evidence of what happens when community support programs are cut. There are 37 per

The Edmonton Institution for Women is overcrowded and at a breaking point, warns an advocacy group for women in prison. Volunteers that regularly visit EIFW are reporting conditions "that seem to