Press Releases, Public Statements, and Open Letters
Press Releases
April 2022: The Courage of Formerly Incarcerated Women leads to Former Correctional Officer at Nova Institution Pleading Guilty to Sexual Assault and Breach of Trust (141kB, PDF)
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February 2022: The Failure of Creating Choices: CAEFS Response to the Office of the Correctional Investigator’s 2020-2021 Annual Report(169kB, PDF)
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December 2021: Response to the OCI’s Recent Reporting “Proportion of Indigenous Women in Federal Custody Nears 50%”(134kB, PDF)
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November 2021: The Government Must Act to End Abusive Solitary Confinement(241kB, PDF)
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November 2021: Advocates Call on Government and CSC to Act to Protect the Rights of Trans Prisoners (259kB, PDF)
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November 2021: Advocates Celebrate “Important win” Following the Striking Down of Inhumane Dry Cell Law in Nova Scotia(260kB, PDF)
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May 2021: Announcing the Launch of Elizabeth Fry Week 2021: Human Rights in Action(228kB, PDF)
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February 2021: Reproductive (In)Justice in Canadian Federal Prisons for Women(244kB, PDF)
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November 2020: By Any Other Name: a 15 Day Spotlight on Solitary Confinement(179kB, PDF)
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November 2020: Prisoner Challenges Law that Authorizes Extreme Form of Solitary Confinement (340kB, PDF)
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October 2020: CAEFS’ Response to The OCI’s Investigation into Sexual Coercion and Sexual Violence in Federal Correction (251kB, PDF)
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August 2020: Oversight of Segregation in Prisons not Operative: The Abolition of the Practice of Segregation is Necessary and Urgent(226kB, PDF)
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July 2020: Correctional Officer at the Grand Valley Institution Arrested for Sexual Assault Against Prisoner (164kB, PDF)
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May 2020: Former Correctional Officer at the Nova Institution for Women Arrested on Charges of Sexual Assault Against Prisoners (151kB, PDF)
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May 2020: Elizabeth Fry Week 2020 – Build Communities, Not Prison(88kB, PDF)
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April 2020: Alarming Infection Rates at Joliette Institution for Women (151kB, PDF)
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January 2020: Appalling and growing over-representation of Indigenous people in Canadian prisons highlighted by the Correctional Investigator (139kB, PDF)
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Public Statements
August 2021: Prisoners’ Justice Day 2021(247kB, PDF)
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June 2021: CAEFS’ Public Statement Regarding a June 2nd, 2021 Open Letter(253kB, PDF)
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May 2021: “The Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Society’s Statement on the discovery of 215 children at a Kamloops Residential School”(224kB, PDF)
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March 2021: Statement on the Office of the Correctional Investigator’s Third COVID-19 Report(248kB, PDF)
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February 2021: Statement on Bill C-22(217kB, PDF)
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August 2020: Prisoners’ Justice Day 2020 (124kB, PDF)
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May 2020: Statement on Policing the Pandemic(60kB, PDF)
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Open Letters
September 2021: Letter of Solidarity with the Faquiri Family(343kB, PDF)
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January 2021: National Coalition Calls on Government to Act to Protect Prisoners Against COVID-19 (239kB, PDF)
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March 2020: COVID-19 & Incarcerated Peoples (147kB, PDF)
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March 2020: Depopulation of Federal Prisons(102kB, PDF)
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