Research Guides: Kingston's Penitentiaries: Kingston Prison for Women (1934-2000)

Imprisoning Our Sisters: The New Federal Women's Prisons in Canada by Stephanie Hayman
Call Number: ebook

Publication Date: 2006

Also available in print HV9507 .H39 2006 LAW.
P4W: Prison for Women [film] by Janis Cole and Holly Dale
Call Number: HV9025 .P946 2007 DVD Stauffer

Publication Date: 2007
Punishment in Disguise: Penal Governance and Federal Imprisonment of Women in Canada by Kelly Hannah-Moffat
Call Number: ebook

Publication Date: 2001
Rethinking Feminist History and Theory by Lisa Pasolli (Editor); Julia Smith (Editor)
Call Number: ebook

Publication Date: 2025

Includes "Rehabitating 'the Girls': Women's Employment and Expertise in the Prison for Women, 1949-1965," by Katie-Marie McNeill, Lisa Pasoli, and Julia Smith.
Rock-a-Bye Baby: a Death Behind Bars by Anne Kershaw
Call Number: HV9505 .M66 K47 1991t Stauffer

Publication Date: 1991
Too Few to Count: Canadian Women in Conflict with the Law by Ellen Adelburg & Claudia Currie
Call Number: HV6046 .T66 LAW

Publication Date: 1987
Too Few to Matter: Institutional Inertia in the Prisoning in Canada and Quebec by Joane Martel
Call Number: ebook

Publication Date: 2023

Includes chapters on women in Kingston Pentitentiary and the Prison For Women.
Unlucky to the End: the story of Janise Marie Gamble by Richard W. Pound
Call Number: ebook

Publication Date: 2007

Also in print. Call number HV6535.C33 C34t 2007 LAW
Women in Cages: the Prison for Women and the Elizabeth Fry Society by Faith Avis
Call Number: HV9960.C22 K53t 2002

Publication Date: 2002

First-hand Accounts

Mouse on a String at the Prison for Women by George Caron
Call Number: HV9508.K56 C35 2009 LAW

Publication Date: 2009

Reports

Commission of Inquiry into Certain Events at the Prison for Women in Kingston
Call Number: HV9025 .C65 1996 LAW

Publication Date: 1996
Report on self-injurious behavior in the Kingston Prison for Women : submitted to The Correctional Service of Canada by Jan Heney
Call Number: HV9510 .K52 .K554 1990 LAW

Publication Date: 1990
Special report of the Correctional Investigator pursuant to Section 193, Corrections and Conditional Release Act, concerning the treatment of inmates and subsequent inquiry following certain incidents at the Prison for Women in April 1994 and thereafter
Call Number: CA1 SG31 95C66 Stauffer

Publication Date: 1995
Brief to Upgrade Programs in Kingston Prison for Women by Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies
Call Number: CA6 EFS 81B67 Stauffer

Publication Date: 1981
Further Comments to the Solicitor General of Canada Regarding Upgrading of Programs at the Kingston Prison for Women, June 1981 by Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies
Call Number: CA6 EFS 81F71 Stauffer

Publication Date: 1981
Program evaluation of therapeutic services at the Prison for Women by Correctional Service of Canada
Call Number: MICROLOG: 96-02499 Stauffer

Publication Date: 1993

Journals, Newsletters, Newspapers

Tightwire
Call Number: HV8301 .T5 Jordan Special Collections

Publication Date: 1972-1993