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Further Reading

Navigating the Justice System with a Brain Injury

Navigating the Justice System with a Brain Injury

A free online toolkit created by Acquired Brain Injury Canada (ABI) that provides information on navigating the justice system with a brain injury. Information for both legal professionals who want to better understand brain injury, and a guide for legal resources created for persons with brain injury and their supporters.

Challenges and Strategies

A prompt sheet meant to help non-disabled or neurotypical people understand the specific challenges you face, and your needs around them. Circle things that apply, and make notes - and then share with your support network or lawyer.

Self Advocacy Toolkit

This Self-Advocacy Toolkit, created by the March of Dimes, is a guide for people with disabilities and their families and caregivers. It is designed to help you build your skills to advocate for yourself in everyday life. 

Disability and the Prison System

A Briarpatch article written by the Prison Project that highlights the experiences of individuals who are racialized and disabled in prison.

Migrant Know Your Rights Guides

The English version of this guide was written and prepared by:

  • International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto

  • Butterfly (Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network)

  • Immigration Legal Committee (No One Is Illegal Toronto)​

 

The French and Spanish versions were prepared by No One is Illegal. The No One is Illegal website is no longer active, and as a result these versions of the guide may not be up-to-date.

Resisting

Resisting Arrest: a new guide to the canadian criminal legal system

a zine to demystify the decisions, processes and risks around
arrest in the context of political work so that we can be informed, courageous and dangerous; together.

Female Keep Separate

Female Keep Separate: Prisons and gender. This text is written by and for queers and their friends. It is meant as part of a conversation around inclusion and identity where the validity of queer people is not in question, and focuses on the experiences of a trans person in prison.

Structural Racism, Ableism and Prisons

This report is a summary of the information that was researched and reviewed by members of the Disability Justice Network of Ontario’s “Prison Project”. The project in its entirety is meant to review, hear, and amplify the voices and experiences of those who are disabled, racialized, and incarcerated while also working to provide direct support and educate the public.

Post-Release Resources

Abolitionist Resources

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