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Welcome to the Center for Research into the Processes, Outcomes and Impacts of Incarceration (CRPOI) Public Research and Report Database. This public database is a repository of research outputs, reports, and studies related to incarceration. Please understand that our Centre launched in Spring, 2025, and our database will grow over time. If you have research outputs you would like included in the database, please add your outputs via the submit a document page, once you are a CRPOI member here: Submit a Document: Centre for Research into the Processes, Outcomes, and Impacts of Incarceration

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A Qualitative Case Study of Pregnancy and Early Parenting in Canada’s Federal Prisons for Women, , , , , , , , adelina-iftene gail-tomblin-murphy martha-paynter ruth-martin-misenercase-study childcare mother mother-child-program parenting pregnancy
Abortion and contraception within prison health care: a qualitative study, , , , , , , , anja-mcleod clare-heggie martha-paynter wendy-v-normanabortion access-to-abortion access-to-healthcare contraception family-planning healthcare
Policy on Right to Housing, , , , , slsc st-leonards-society-of-canadaaccess-to-housing accessible-housing housing policy shelter
UK birth companions birth charter makes an impact on perinatal care in prisons, , , , martha-payntermaternal-health nursing perinatal qualitative uk
Building Bridges, , , , shoshana-pollackexperiential-learning prison social-justice social-justice-education women-in-prison
Pathways for Changemakers Infographic for Community Agencies: Pursuing Justice: Bilateral Interactions Among the Criminal Justice and Housing Sectors for Preventing Youth Homelessness., , , , , , , , , anita-desai erin-dej jessica-braimoh vic-kaulbackaccess-to-housing accessible-housing canada homelessness infographic youth youth-justice
Healthcare and Harm Reduction for Indigenous People in Prison, , , , , , , , andre-capretti andra-capretti anne-rachelle-boulanger janet-butler-mcphee sandra-ka-hon-chuhealth health-impacts health-in-prison health-policy indigenous
An Imprisoning Gaze, , , , shoshana-pollackepistemic-violence female-offenders feminist-criminology prisons-for-women risk
“Walls are put up when curiosity ends”: Transformative Education in the Canadian Carceral Context, , , , jennifer-m-kilty samantha-mcaleeseperformative-space prison-education transformative-education walls-to-bridges
Gender-affirming healthcare for incarcerated transgender and gender diverse people: an international scoping review, , , , , , , chloe-fuller lin-tong martha-payntergender-diverse-people gender-diversity gender-affirming-healthcare healthcare incarceration transgender
Antenatal obstetrician care among people who experience incarceration in Ontario, , , , , , , , , , alison-carter-ramirez fiona-kouyoumdjian jessica-liauw katherine-e-mcleod laura-jane-mcleod mary-coli-blackantenatal-obstetrician-care healthcare incarceration mother prenatal-care reproductive-care
Gender, Health and (In)justice in Canada, , , , , , el-jones martha-paynter omisoore-drydengender health injustice justice wellness-within
Feminist Abolitionist Nursing, , , , , , , , keisha-jefferies leah-carrier lori-gosbin martha-paynterabolition anti-racism carcerality nursing-ethics prison social-justice
Supporting women leaving prison through peer health mentoring, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , alison-granger-brown christine-hemingway jane-a-buxton katherine-e lara-lisa-condello lynn-fels marla-buchanan michelle-degroot mo-korchinski pamela-young patricia-a-janssen ruth-elwood-martin tammy-milkovich vivian-ramsdenhealth health-research peer-health-mentoring release women
Health Status of Females who Experience Incarceration, , , , , , , beverly-osei emily-norris fiona-kouyoumdjian kinwah-fung matilda-kimhealth ontario women womens-health
Abortion and Contraception for Incarcerated People: A Scoping Review, , , , , , , , , , clare-heggie martha-paynter paula-pinzon-hernandez sarah-munro shelley-mckibbonabortion access-to-abortion access-to-contraception contraception mothers reproductive-health reproductive-health-guidance
Federal Mother-Child Program, , , , , , prisoners-legal-services west-coast-prison-justice-societychild guide mother mother-child-program parent resource
Labelling Clients “Risky”, , , , shoshana-pollackfemale-offenders neo-liberal risk welfare womens-prisons
Pathways for Changemakers Infographic for Municipal Government: Pursuing Justice: Bilateral Interactions Among the Criminal Justice and Housing Sectors for Preventing Youth Homelessness., , , , , , , , , anita-desai erin-dej jessica-braimoh vic-kaulbackaccess-to-housing accessible-housing canada homelessness infographic youth youth-justice
Canada’s Mother-Child Program: Examining Its Emergence, Usage, and Current State, , , , , sarah-brennancanada child correctional-visitation incarcerated-mothers mother mother-child-program
Suspension, not expungement: Rationalizing misguided policy decisions around cannabis amnesty in Canada, , , samantha-mcaleesecannabis expungement policy suspension
Addressing housing barriers and insecurity among women and gender-diverse people impacted by criminalization, , , , , , , , sarah-gelbardaccess-to-housing advocate barrier-to-reintegration canada criminalized-women housing reintegration research women
Breastfeeding and Criminalized Women, , , , womens-wellness-withinbreastfeeding family-resources mother resource women
Transformative Praxis with Incarcerated Women: Collaboration, Leadership, and Voice, , , , , , , shoshana-pollackfeminist-praxis history-and-philosophy intersectionality prison-education research-categories social-welfare social-work women-in-prison
What would housing be like in a world without prisons? A transformative housing justice zine, , , , , , , , , sarah-gelbardaccess-to-housing advocate alternatives arts-based collaborative housing justice social-justice transformative-justice zine
Gender-Responsive Healthcare and Harm Reduction in Prison, , , , , , , andre-capretti anne-rachelle-boulanger janet-butler-mcphee sandra-ka-hon-chuaccess-to-healthcare correctional-health-care gender health health-policy
Policy on Impact of Long-Term Incarceration, , , , , , slsc st-leonards-society-of-canadafederal-sentence incarceration indeterminate-sentence life-sentence long-term-incarceration policy
Community Supports: Alternative to Traditional Approaches, , , , anita-desai slsc st-leonards-society-of-canadaalternatives community-supports conditional-release
A Cross-Sectional Survey of Reproductive, Gynecological, and Breast Health Outcomes Among People in Provincial Prisons for Women in Atlantic Canada, , , , , , , , , , anja-mcleod clare-heggie fiona-kouyoumdjian jessica-liauw martha-paynter rosann-edwardscontraception cross-sectional-survey health-equity pregnancy prison reproductive-health
Maternal incarceration in a provincial prison in Canada, , , , , , , claire-rillie clare-heggie dominica-beals lauren-matheson martha-paynter miranda-braymaternal-incarceration mother qualitative
Wrongfully Convicted Women: Before, During, and After Wrongful Conviction, , , , , , casandra-pacholski gail-s-andersoncriminal-justice-reform law legal-literacy prison-law women wrongful-conviction
(Un)becoming the offender, , , nyki-kishaccess-to-justice parole prison security-classification
Who Experiences Mental Health Problems in the Criminal Justice System?, , , mental-health-commission-of-canadainfographic mental-health overrepresentation resource
“Circuits of Exclusion”, , , shoshana-pollackcommunity community-exclusion criminalized-women exclusion
Taming the Shrew: Regulating Prisoners Through Women-Centered Mental Health Programming, , , , shoshana-pollackmental-health prison prison-health programming women-in-prison
Travel distances from institutions designated to detain women and girls to procedural (surgical) abortion facilities in Australia, , , , , , , anna-noonan clare-heggie martha-paynterabortion access-to-healthcare australia healthcare prisons spatial-analysis
Anti-oppressive Social Work Practice with Women in Prison, , , shoshana-pollackanti-oppressive-practice female-offenders peer-support women-in-prison
Pathways for Changemakers Infographic for Provincial and Territorial Governments : Pursuing Justice: Bilateral Interactions Among the Criminal Justice and Housing Sectors for Preventing Youth Homelessness., , , , , , , , , anita-desai erin-dej jessica-braimoh vic-kaulbackaccess-to-housing accessible-housing canada homelessness infographic youth youth-justice
Hard Time Persists: Healthcare and Harm Reduction in Canada’s Prison System, , , , , , , andre-capretti anne-rachelle-boulanger janet-butler-mcphee sandra-ka-hon-chuaccess-to-healthcare correctional-health-care health health-in-prison health-policy
The Aging and Elderly Prison Population, , , , , , , , slsc st-leonards-society-of-canadaaging care-services demographics dying elderly health medical-care prison-population
Opioid toxicity deaths in Black persons who experienced provincial incarceration in Ontario, Canada 2015-2020, , , , , , , , , , , akwasia-owusu-bempah amanda-butler fiona-kouyoumdjian harvey-l-nicholson-jr ruth-croxfordblack-people death death-in-prison illicit-drugs incarceration opioid opioid-overdone opioid-toxicity
Sexual and reproductive health experiences and outcomes of incarcerated women and gender-diverse people in Australia: a scoping review, , , , , , , , , anna-noonan chloe-fuller clare-heggie martha-paynter shelley-mckibbonaccess-to-healthcare gender-diverse-people healthcare reproductive-health sexual-health women
Le temps dur persiste : Les soins de santé et la réduction des méfaits dans le système carcéral du Canada, , , , , , , andre-capretti anne-rachelle-boulanger janet-butler-mcphee sandra-ka-hon-chuaccess-to-healthcare correctional-health-care french health health-policy
Procedural Abortion Care for People in Prison in Canada, , , , , , , , , wellness-within womens-wellness-withinabortion access-to-abortion guide mother reproductive-care reproductive-health reproductive-health-guidance reproductive-justice resource
The Representation and Characteristics of Black People in Provincial Correctional Facilities in Ontario, Canada, , , akwasia-owusu-bempahblack black-people inequality overrepresentation
Health outcomes and healthcare access experiences of incarcerated and recently released women in rural areas: A scoping review, , , , , , , alex-goudreau chloe-fuller clare-heggie martha-paynteraccess-to-healthcare health health-outcomes incarceration scoping-review
“I’m Just Not Good in Relationships”, , , , , shoshana-pollackfemale-offenders gender parole risk victimization women-centered-correctional-practices
Community-Based Residential Facilities 101, , , , slsc st-leonards-society-of-canadacommunity conditional-release facilities parole
“You Can’t Have it Both Ways”: Punishment and Treatment of Imprisoned Women, , , , shoshana-pollackcrime female-offenders gender prison-programs womens-imprisonment
Coercion in the Courtroom: Unpacking the Reality of False Guilty Pleas in Canada, , , , , , chloe-leclerc elsa-euvrard meritxell-abellan-almenaracriminal-justice-reform law legal-literacy prison-law wrongful-conviction
Final Report August 2024 – Women and Gender Equality Canada, , , martha-paynteratlantic-canada cross-sectional-survey reproductive-health sexual-health
Considering the best interests of the child in sentencing and other decisions concerning parents facing criminal sanctions, , , , , , , , , , , allan-castle barbara-pickering hayli-millar international-centre-for-criminal-law-reform-and-criminal-justice-policy jessica-jahn megan-capp richard-fowler shawn-bayes vivienne-chin yvon-dandurandchild parents sentencing
Solitary By Another Name: The Ongoing Use of Isolation in Canada’s Federal Prisons, , , , , , , prisoners-legal-services west-coast-prison-justice-societyisolation lockdowns observation observation-cells restrictive-movement solitary-confinement structured-intervention-units
Pathways for Changemakers Infographic for Federal Government: Pursuing Justice: Bilateral Interactions Among the Criminal Justice and Housing Sectors for Preventing Youth Homelessness., , , , , , , , , anita-desai erin-dej jessica-braimoh vic-kaulbackaccess-to-housing accessible-housing canada homelessness infographic youth youth-justice
Receipt of opioid agonist treatment in provincial correctional facilities is associated with a reduced hazard of nonfatal overdone in the month following release, , , , , , , , , , , , amanda-k-slaunwhite bohdan-nosyk guy-felicella jane-a-buxton katherine-e-mcleod marnie-scow megan-kurz mohammad-ehsanul-karim ruth-elwood-martinnonfatal-overdose opioid opioid-agonist-treatment opioid-overdose release
Attachment to primary care and team-based primary care, , , , , , , , , , , , , , aaron-m-orkin claire-e-kendall fiona-kouyoumdjian fiona-l-matheson kinwah-fung lori-kiefer marie-kim samantha-green stephanie-cheng tara-kiranaccess-to-healthcare community community-supports healthcare primary-care team-based-primary-care
Life(r)’s Work: Supporting a Modernized Strategy for Life-Sentenced People in Canada, , , , , slsc st-leonards-society-of-canadaexpert-advisory life-sentences modern planning recommendations
Equitable and Consistent Standards of Healthcare for Justice-Involved People: Policy, , , , , , , slsc st-leonards-society-of-canadaaccess-to-healthcare evaluation health healthcare justice-involved-people policy standards
Damage/Control: Use of force and the cycle of violence and trauma in BC’s federal and provincial prisons, , , , , , , prisoners-legal-services west-coast-prison-justice-societybritish-columbia cycle-of-violence force prison truama use-of-force violence
Legal Protections for Incarcerated Women – Resource, , , , , , , wellness-within womens-wellness-withincanada-corrections ccrf charter convention-on-the-rights-of-the-child nova-scotia-corrections-act the-bangkok-rules united-nations
Family planning care for people who have experienced incarceration, , , , , , the-cart-access-project wellness-withinfamily family-planning family-resources guide pregnancy resources
Marginalized: The Aboriginal Woman’s Experience in Federal Corrections, , , , , , mandy-wesley public-safety-canada the-wesley-groupaboriginal-women dislocation indigenous intersectionality overrepresentation
Advocates’ Perspectives on the Canadian Prison Mother Child Program, , , , , , , , , , adelina-iftene clare-heggie gail-tomblin-murphy martha-paynter ruth-martin-misenerabolition advocate maternal-health mother mother-child-program nursery qualitative
Problematizing Perpetual Punishment, , , , nyki-kish tamara-humphreyframe-analysis life-sentence public-opinion qualitative-research
Rates of opioid agonist treatment prescribing in provincial prisons in Ontario, Canada, 2015-2018, , , , , , , , claire-bodkin fiona-kouyoumdjian leonora-regenstreif lori-kiefer susan-bondyanalyses cross-sectional healthcare opioid prescription
COVID-19 impacts on decarceration for Indigenous, Black, and other racialized people in Ontario, Canada: An interrupted time series study, , , , , , , , , , , , , , akwasi-owusu-bempah amanda-butler beverley-osei fiona-kouyoumdjian howard-sapers jessica-jurgutis kate-mcleod martha-paynter nina-lamberti raya-semeniuk ruth-croxford ruth-elwood-martinblack covid-19 decarceration indigenous
Decarceration through Self-Determination: Ending the mass incarceration of Indigenous people in Canada, , , , , prisoners-legal-services west-coast-prison-justice-societydecarceration indigenous mass-incarceration overrepresentation self-determination
“A different sense of what we do here, who we are and what we deliver”: Provider perspectives on the effects of a change in governance of healthcare services in correctional facilities in British Columbia, , , , , , jane-a-buxton katherine-e-mcleod ruth-elwood-martinchange-in-governance governance-of-healthcare healthcare-services journal-article provider-perspectives
Reasons for Exoneration Among Fresh Evidence Cases in Canada, , , , , , , camille-c-weinsheimer deborah-a-connolly megan-giroux tamara-levy-kccriminal-justice-reform law legal-literacy prison-law wrongful-conviction
The Harms of Incarceration and the transformative Potentiality of Art: Reflections from Experiential Knowledge, , , , nyki-kisharts-based prison prison-education transformative-education walls-to-bridges
Infant and Maternal Outcomes for Women Who Experience Imprisonment in Ontario, Canada, , , , , , , , , , , , alison-carter-ramirez dustin-costescu fiona-kouyoumdjian hong-lu jessica-liauw laura-holderchildcare infant infant-health maternal maternal-health mother-child-program obstetrics pregnancy-complications
Pursuing Justice: Bilateral Interactions Among the Criminal Justice and Housing Sectors for Preventing Youth Homelessness, , , , , , , , anita-desai erin-dej jessica-braimoh vic-kaulbackaccess-to-housing canada homelessness housing youth youth-justice
Bill S-230: An Act to Amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, , , , slsc st-leonards-society-of-canadabill-s-230 corrections-and-conditional-release-act senate submission-to-senate
Duty to See that Public Administration Accords with the Law, , , , , , , the-john-howard-society-of-canadacanada-corrections government justice law minister-of-justice public-administration public-affairs solitary-confinement
Undergraduate students’ perspectives on the impact of a prison health course, , , , , , , , , , jane-a-buxton katherine-e-mcleod leeann-donnelly rose-b-cameron ruth-elwood-martinanti-stigma canada collaborative ethics multi-professional peer-to-peer prison-health-course
Birth Outcomes Among First Nations Birthing Parents Incarcerated While Pregnant, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , anita-durksen emily-brownell farzana-quddus hygiea-casiano ivy-ferland janelle-boram-lee jennifer-e-enns lorna-turnbull marcelo-urquia mark-granger marni-brownell miyosha-tso-deh nathan-c-nickel randy-walld rhonda-campbell wanda-phillips-beckbirthing-outcomes child mother reproductive-health womens-health
Prison is a barrier to high-quality, comprehensive midwifery care, , , , martha-paynteraccess-to-midwifery-care birth midwife mother pregnancy
Complicity and Redemption, , , , , shoshana-pollack tiina-eldridgecomplicity insider insider-outsider outsider research
Policy on Restorative Justice, , , , slsc st-leonards-society-of-canadaaddressing-harm policy reparation restorative-justice
Stories Matter: Reaffirming the value of qualitative research, , , , , , jennifer-m-kilty samantha-mcaleesecase-study criminal-justice-reform criminology narrative-research qualitative qualitative-research
Opioid toxicity deaths among persons who experienced incarceration in Ontario provincial correctional facilities, 2015-2020, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , aaron-m-orkin ahmed-m-bayoumi akwasia-owusu-bempah amanda-butler claire-bodkin dale-guenter fiona-kouyoumdjian hanaya-akbari katherine-e-mcleod leonora-regenstreif lori-kiefer ruth-croxford susan-bondy tara-gomes tharsan-kanagalingamdeath death-in-prison drug opioid opioid-toxicity summary-of-findings
Charter Rights and Structured Intervention Units: Have Rights Abuses of Administrative Segregation Been Corrected?, , , , , , , , david-asper-centre-for-constitutional-rights rebecca-rabinovitch the-john-howard-society-of-canadabill-c-83 charter law prison-law solitary solitary-confinement structured-intervention-units
Healthcare and Harm Reduction for Racialized People in Prison – Summary, , , , , , andre-capretti anne-rachelle-boulanger janet-butler-mcphee sandra-ka-hon-chucorrectional-health-care health health-in-prison racialized
The health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on adults who experience imprisonment globally, , , , , , , , , , , , alice-cavanagh angela-gao emily-hughes emily-norris fiona-kouyoumdjian hannah-kim katherine-e-mcleod susan-j-bondy tharsan-kanagalingamcovid-19 health-impacts healthcare pandemic systematic-review
Caring for the Peripartum Patient Experiencing Incarceration, , , , corinne-sauve martha-paynterhealthcare maternity mother postpartum
The bail process is both the trial and the punishment: Surveillance and control without the burden of conviction, , , , nicole-meyersbail bail-reform pre-trial risk sentencing
Policy on Impact of Criminal Records, , , , slsc st-leonards-society-of-canadabarrier-to-reintegration criminal-record impact-of-criminal-record policy
The health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on adults who experience imprisonment globally, , , , , , , , , , , alice-cavanagh angela-gao emily-hughes emily-norris fiona-kouyoumdjian hannah-kim katherine-e-mcleod susan-j-bondy tharsan-kanagalingamcovid-19 health imprisonment pandemic
Healthcare and Harm Reduction in Immigration Detention, , , , , , , , andre-capretti andra-capretti anne-rachelle-boulanger janet-butler-mcphee sandra-ka-hon-chuaccess-to-healthcare health health-in-prison health-policy immigration
Supporting people leaving prisons during COVID-19: Perspectives from peer health mentors, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , cheri-mcbride glenn-young jane-a-buxton katherine-e-mcleod kelsey-timler lara-lisa-condello mo-korchinski pamela-young patricia-a-janssen ruth-elwood-martin tammy-milkovich william-wardellcovid-19 peer-health-mentor prison public-health qualitative-research throughcare
Estimating the Number of Children with a Biological Parent in Canadian Custody, 2019/2020, , linda-mussellchild children parent-in-custody
“Just clearly the right thing to do”: Perspectives of correctional services leaders on moving governance of health-care in custody, , , , , , , , amanda-butler jane-a-buxton katherine-e-mcleod ruth-elwood-martincorrectional-health-care equivalence health-in-prison health-policy prison-medicine prison-staff
Lived experiences of pregnancy and prison through a reproductive justice lens, , , , , , , , , , alice-cavanagh fiona-kouyoumdjian jessica-gaber jessica-liauw katrina-shen meredith-vanstone tahmina-shamsheriincarceration pregnancy prison-abolition qualitative-meta-synthesis reproductive-justice
Race and Incarceration: The Representation of Black People in Provincial Correctional Facilities in Ontario, Canada, , , , , , , , akwasia-owusu-bempah andrew-s-wilton fiona-kouyoumdjian firdaous-sbai maria-jungblack-people incarceration ontario prison race
Burden of opioid toxicity death in the fentanyl-dominant era for people who experience incarceration in Ontario, Canada, 2015-2020, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , aaron-m-orkin ahmed-m-bayoumi akwasia-owusu-bempah amanda-butler claire-bodkin dale-guenter fiona-kouyoumdjian hanaya-akbari katherine-e-mcleod leonora-regenstreif lori-kiefer ruth-croxford susan-j-bondy tara-gomes tharsan-kanagalingamdeath death-in-prison fentanyl opioid opioid-toxicity retrospective-study
The experiences of family planning health professionals providing care to incarcerated patients: A qualitative study, , , , , , , , anja-mcleod clare-heggie martha-paynter wendy-v-normanfamily family-planning-health-professionals health healthcare incarceration pregnancy
The impact of COVID-19 on opioid toxicity deaths for people who experience incarceration compared to the general population in Ontario, , , , , , , , , aaron-m-orkin amanda-butler fiona-kouyoumdjian katherine-e-mcleod ruth-croxford susan-j-bondy tara-gomescovid-19 death death-in-prison opioid