Les femmes et l’incarcération, le temps n'arrange rien

Abstract

Some of the issues related to the incarceration of women have long been denounced and are well documented in the current literature. This article attempts to report on the recommendations of the Task Force on federally sentenced women in Canada by indicating what were the underlying influences. Thus, the proposed policy is presented as deriving from a feminist analysis of the reality of the women in prison. It is also mentioned that, for various reasons, the implementation of such a policy may not follow the course initially intended, therefore it should be cautiously supervised.