Prison stories

The Second Chance Foundation’s Prison stories are curated to provide better understanding of the incarceration experience and perplexities within the Canadian, United States and international justice system, as well as perspectives of various groups in their brush with the law.

Incarceration in the lives of people with disabilities

Disabilities within criminal justice system’s penal practice and experiences of justice create and become created by prison culture. Disablism, criminological and penological research examined the ‘barriers of doing’ and ‘barriers of being’ in relation to incarceration as experienced by the people with various forms of disabilities. However, no adequate records of people with disabilities may […]

Poverty’s close relation to person’s rights and their violation

Poverty has been found closely related to human rights violations. In Canada, Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) is tasked with advancement of human rights through accentuation of the ways in which systematic discrimination causes and sustains poverty, as well as addresses poverty within a human rights framework. 1 Poverty further becomes seen as failures of […]

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