See the resources below to gain a broader understanding of the issues related to prison expansion, criminalization, and incarceration.

• Bail Reform
  
  Set Up to Fail: Bail and the Revolving Door of Pre-trial Detention
  Canadian Civil Liberties Association report on bail reform
  
  Reasonable Bail?
  The Centre of Research, Policy & Program Development. John Howard Society of Ontario
   

• Community Reentry
  
  Women, Work & Reentry: A Report on Access to Employment for Women who have been Incarcerated
  Anita Grace. Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University
  
  Homeless and Jailed: Jailed and Homeless
  John Howard Society of Toronto
   

• The Local Economic Impacts of Prisons
  
  Invested in Prisons: Prison Expansion and Community Development in Canada
  Greg McElligott. Studies in Social Justice
  
  The Local Economic Impacts of Prisons
  Janjala Chirakijja,  Department of Economics, Northwestern University
  
  The Prison Industry: Carceral Expansion and Employment in U.S. Counties
  Gregory Hooks, Clayton Mosher, Thomas Rotolo, Linda Lobao. Social Science Quarterly
   

• Mental Illness and Incarceration
  
  Stop Jailing People with Mental Health Issues: It Kills
  Sarah Speight, Souheil Benslimane, Aaron Doyle, and Justin Piché. Ottawa Citizen
  
  Mental Illness and the Prison System
  The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. website
   

• Prison Expansion
  
  Build Communities, Not Cages: Jails Are Death Traps, No Matter How New
  Justin Piche' and Sarah Speight. The Globe and Mail
  
  Ontario's Plan to Build New Prisons is Wrongheaded
  Michael Spratt. Canadian Lawyer Magazine
  
  The pandemic has offered a look at prison reform possibilities
  Maclean's Editorial