Kelly Hannah-Moffat

University of Toronto

Kelly Hanna-Moffat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto at Mississauga. She worked as a ressearcher and policy advisor for the Commission of Inquiry into Certain Events at the Prison for Women in Kingston. She is a past-president of the Toronto Elizabeth Fry Society, a halfway house and organization that works for and on behalf of all women in conflict with the law. Her publications include: Punishment in Disguise: The Governance of Canadian Women’s Federal Imprisonment, “Moral Agent Or Actuarial Subject: Risk and Canadian Women’s Imprisonment” and “Prisons that Empower: Neoliberal Governance in Canadian Women’s Prisons.”

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  • An Ideal Prison?

    Critical Essays on Women’s Imprisonment in Canada

    Edited by Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Margaret Shaw     January 2000

    Ten years after the publication of Creating Choices, a remarkable report on women’s imprisonment in Canada, this book sets out to reflect on attempts to reform prison. In a series of critical essays, the contributors stimulate reflection and discussion. They explore the effects of punishment and penality on women’s lives, the impact of feminist reforms on the lives of women in prison and the systemic barriers which limit change in the context of both provincial and federal prisons. Each of the authors has a personal and sometimes intimate knowledge of the recent history of women’s prisons in Canada. Taking Creating Choices as a starting point, these essays question the role of prisons in our society, the importance of taking account of gender and its intersection with race and class, and the problems of both weak feminist models and the co-optation of feminist ideals and Aboriginal spirituality by correctional systems.

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