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More than 60 per cent of incarcerated women are mothers — Listen

May 12, 2023
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More than 60 per cent of incarcerated women are mothers — Listen
Many women who are incarcerated were just trying to make ends meet for their families. Here an image from a rally to demand the release of people held in jails, outside the Riverside Correctional Facility in Philadelphia, May 2020. Joe Piette/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

Mother’s Day is just a few days away. It can be a complicated day. For some, it could mean a bouquet of flowers or a breakfast in bed. For others, it can mean mourning the loss of a loved one or dealing with a haunted past. And still — for others — like the 66 per cent of incarcerated women in prison who are mothers, it can mean something else entirely.

Despite a reduction in crime in the last 20 years in Canada, many women attempting to make ends meet for their families end up colliding with the prison system.

In Canada, women’s prisons are filling up. In fact, the fastest-growing prison population in Canada is racialized women. More than one in three women in federal custody are Indigenous. And the percentage of South Asian women and African Canadian women in custody is also disproportionately high.

One of the reasons the women’s prison population is rising, experts say, is poverty.

Amidst a financial downturn and ballooning economic inequality, criminalizing attempts at survival is staggering. And the effects on families is devastating.

Adding to this is the complexity that 87 percent of all women in federal prisons in Canada have experienced physical or sexual abuse and many also live with mental health issues.

On this episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, we are joined by Rai Reece, a sociologist at Toronto Metropolitan University who researches prisons and feminist criminology. Lorraine Pinnock also joins us. She is the Ontario Coordinator for the Walls to Bridges program which helps women with education when transitioning out of the system. It’s a transition she has made herself. In 2011, Lorraine was incarcerated at the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ont. She has two children.

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The Grand Valley Institution for Women in Waterloo, Ont.
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Resources

Carceral Redlining: White Supremacy is a Weapon of Mass Incarceration for Indigenous and Black Peoples in Canada (Policy Brief: Yellowhead Institute Report) by Rai Reece

What Is Abolition Feminism and Why Do We Need It Now? (Nonprofit Quarterly)

Patricia Hill Collins: Reconceiving Motherhood by Kaila Adia Story

“Wholistic and Ethical: Social Inclusion with Indigenous Peoples” by Kathleen Absolon

“University-prison partnership brings hope to incarcerated learners” by Bruno Vompean (University Affairs)

Update on the Costs of Incarceration – The Parliamentary Budget Office, 2018

Advocates’ perspectives on the Canadian prison mother child program (Qualitative Research in Health)

From the archives – in The Conversation




Read more:
We need to reclaim the original intent of Mother’s Day





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Women need health and dental care to stay out of prison





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