June 1999
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Canadian women's studies = Les cahiers de la femme
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... Following the opening of the new prisons for women (1995 to 1997), numbers of federally incarcerated women increased by 22% (Correctional Service of Canada, 2006). This rise has been attributed to welfare reforms and cuts to social spending such as social services and mental health and education services (Mosher, 2014;Pate, 1999) and has been termed an 'incarceration spiral' (Balfour, 2006). Pollack (2009) articulates that rates of imprisoned Indigenous women are higher again than non-Indigenous women, as illustrated by the jump of 72.5% of imprisoned Indigenous women between 1996 and 2004 in Canada (Sapers, 2006). ...
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June 1999
Canadian women's studies = Les cahiers de la femme