ENDNOTES

¹ Letter written by Kim Pate, Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies to Michelle Falardeau-Ramsay, Chief Commissioner - Canadian Human Rights Commission, March 8, 2001.

² Ibid.

³ Quinn, G. & Degener, T., Human Rights and Disability: The Current Use and Future Potential of United Nations Human Rights Instruments in the Context of Disability, 2002, (United Nations: New York and Geneva) at p. 13.

⁴ Ibid.

⁵ Federal/Provincial/Territorial Review of Services Affecting Canadians With Disabilities. Pathway to Integration: Final Report, Mainstream 1992: Report to Ministers of Social Services, 1993 at p. 2.

⁶ Ibid.

⁷ Ibid.

⁸ Ibid. at p. 1

⁹ Butterfield, F. “Prisons: The Nation's New Mental Institutions” in CAPT Outreach Magazine, February 2000 (a condensation of a New York Times article by Butterfield which highlights what is the most egregious fall-out of inadequate care for people with serious brain disorders such as schizophrenia: incarceration.)

¹⁰ Ibid.

¹¹ The Joint Committee on Mental Health Reform, A Report of the Public Hearings of the Joint Committee on Mental Health Reform and Findings and Recommendations as Adopted by the California Legislature Senate Select Committee on Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health, June 2000, [Online] Available: http://www.sen.ca.gov/ftp/SEN/COMMITTEE/SELECT/DEVELOP/_home/Report.htm.

¹² Broward's Mental Health Court: An Innovative Approach to the Mentally Disabled in the Criminal Justice System? Honourable Ginger Lerner-Wren, Presiding Judge, Broward Mental Health Court, Florida, [Online] Available:
http://www.ncsc.dni.us/KMO/Projects/Trends/99-00/articles/MntlHlth.htm.

¹³ See for example CAEFS’ Annual Report – 2000.

¹⁴ Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, Recent Issues Impacting Women's Imprisonment in Canada, [Online] Available: http://www.elizabethfry.ca/Icopa.htm.

¹⁵ Laishes, J., Mental Health Strategy for Women Offenders, [1997], Correctional Service of Canada - Mental Health, Health Services at p. 2., [Online] Available:
http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/prgrm/fsw/mhealth/mhealth_e.rtf.

¹⁶ Ibid.

¹⁷ Ibid. at p. 3.

¹⁸ See “Mental Health Treatment in Jails and Prisons: Bazelon Center,” Criminalization Fact Sheet, [Online] Available: http://www.bazelon.org.

¹⁹ Position of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies Regarding the Classification and Carceral Placement of Women Classified as Maximum Security Prisoners, March 1998, [Online] Available:
http://www.elizabethfry.ca/maxe.htm.