Booklets for People in Federal Prisons

These booklets, produced by Prisoners’ Legal Services in British Columbia, provide information to people in federal institutions on prisoners’ rights and other relevant topics, including:

  • Conditional release, Correcting your CSC file, Section 810 recognizances
  • Family: Child support, Family: Divorce
  • Grievances, Human rights complaints, Disciplinary process
  • Indigenous spiritual accommodation, Indigenous legal rights
  • Hepatitis C, Health care complaints, Methadone and Suboxone
  • Mother-child program, Trans Rights
  • Pay, Property rights, Visits

** NOTE: this content relates to federal prisons rather than provincial jails, and was produced in a jurisdiction outside Ontario. It is included in this database for context. Before relying on or distributing this information, consider referring the client to Queen’s Prison Law Clinic at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.