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How to support your loved one at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre

This resource, produced by MOMs (Mothers Offering Mutual Support), provides practical tips for people who wish to visit their loved one at the OCDC and about supports they can provide for their loved ones.

Indigenous rights: Bail

This resource from CLEO explains Gladue factors that courts must consider when deciding whether to give bail to an Indigenous person.

Indigenous Rights: Diversion

This resource from CLEO explains what Indigenous diversion is and when it may be available.

Indigenous Rights: Sentencing

This resource from CLEO explains Gladue factors that courts must consider when sentencing an Indigenous person.

Has your child been charged with a crime?

This fact sheet produced by CLEO covers issues related to children who have been charged with a crime. It is available in several different languages.

Voting by Incarcerated Electors

This tip sheet provides guidance to people incarcerated in provincial or federal institutions on the voting and registration process while incarcerated.

Parole – The Next Step of the Journey: Information for family, friends, support workers, and those in prison

This resource produced by the Canadian Families and Corrections Network provides information for families, friends, and support workers who support people leaving federal prison.
NOTE: Although it mostly focuses on the federal parole process, they provide some useful referral information which could be given to people leaving jail in Ontario as well.

Police powers: Stops and searches

This resource produced by CLEO gives clear language information about what police should or shouldn’t do when stopping or searching people. The information is available in PDF and HTML formats from the links below.

The Correctional Service of Canada’s Prison Needle Exchange Program: Policy Brief

This policy brief produced by the Canadian HIV/ AIDS Prison Needle Exchange Program canvasses the Correctional Services Canada policy creating a needle exchange program. Although this policy applies to the federal corrections context, it could be used to inform advocacy for harm reduction strategies around needle use in Ontario jails.

Know your rights: A guide for Child and Family Service Providers Serving People with HIV

This guide produced by the Canadian HIV/ AIDS Legal Network provides information to community workers on various topics related to HIV/ AIDS, including whether clients must disclose their HIV status to employers.