Community Resources
Visiting Loved Ones in Incarceration.
Is someone you care about currently incarcerated in an adult correctional facility in Ontario?
This handbook has everything you need to know before you visit them.
Inmate Information Guide for Adult Institutions (MSG)
Do you know your rights as an inmate in an Ontario correctional facility? This guide from the Ministry of the Solicitor General explains all of the rights and privileges accorded to you.
Police Record Hub
The HUB is a one-stop site to access free resources and stay up to date on police and criminal records information in Ontario. These free and evidence-based resources are helpful for individuals with records, employers, the volunteer sector, legal and HR professionals.
JHS Learning Hub
The JHS Learning Hub is a free online platform that aims to equip frontline workers who serve justice-involved populations with the knowledge and practical skills to spot and respond to their clients’ common civil legal issues, like evictions or loss of income assistance, earlier, and as a result, prevent their escalation. Certification options are available.
Connect with Other Organizations
- Federal Government
- Public Safety
- Public Safety Canada
- National Anti-Drug Strategy
- Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council
- Correctional Service of Canada
- Correctional Service of Canada: Parole and Community Corrections
- Correctional Services of Canada: Research
- Parole Board of Canada
- Department of Justice
- Department of Justice: Youth Justice
- Department of Justice: Research and Statistics
- Mental Health Commission of Canada
- Canada Auditor General
- Statistics Canada
- Correctional Investigator of Canada
- Ontario Government
- Ministry of the Attorney General
- Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services
- Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services: Community Corrections
- Parole and Earned Release Board
- Ministry of Children and Youth Services: Youth and the Law
- Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
- Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office
- Ontario Human Rights Commission
- Ontario Ombudsman
- Ontario Auditor General
- Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
- Courts, Laws, Legal Clinics & Organizations
- Ontario Statutes and Regulations (e-laws)
- Federal Department of Justice: Justice Laws
- Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Criminal Code
- Youth Criminal Justice Act
- Correctional Investigator of Canada
- Justice for Children and Youth Legal Clinic
- Community Legal Education Ontario
- Aboriginal Legal Services Community Council Program
- African Canadian Legal Clinic
- Legal Aid Ontario
- Law Society of Upper Canada
- Canadian Bar Association
- Canadian Criminal Justice Association
- Canadian Civil Liberties Association
- Law Central Canada
- Ontario Women’s Justice Network
- Youth Criminal Law
- Non-Governmental and other Organizations
- Wellesley Institute – Local Housing Initiatives across Canada
- National Adult Literacy Database
- St Leonard’s Community Services
- Ontario Halfway House Association
- Youth Justice Ontario
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
- Prisoner’s HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (PASAN)
- Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
- Sound Times Consumer/Survivor Support Services
- Canadian Mental Health Association
- Dawn Ontario: Disabled Women’s Network Ontario
- Street Health
- The Wellesley Institute
- Canadian Race Relations Foundation
- Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy
- Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System
- Canadian Families and Corrections Network
- Elizabeth Fry Society
- METRAC Community Justice Program
- Vancouver Coastal Health: Insite Safe Injection Site
- City of Toronto Shelter, Support and Housing Administration
- The Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation
- The Federation of Metro Tenants’ Association
- Rights at Home: Report on the Consultation on Human Rights and Rental
- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Library
- PovNet
- The Advocacy Centre for Tenants of Ontario
- Amnesty International Canada
- Canadian Council on Social Development: Crime Prevention through Social Development
- Canadian Civil Liberties Association
- The Centre for Restorative Justice, Simon Fraser University
- OHRDP: Ontario Harm Reduction Distribution Program
- International
- United Nations Human Rights: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- United Nations Prison-Related Standards and Norms
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
- United Nations: Office on Drugs and Crime
- Penal Reform International
- International Corrections and Prisons Association
- International Community Corrections Association
- The Howard League (UK)
- Prison Reform Trust (UK)
- International Centre for Prison Studies, King’s College (UK)
- NACRO: Changing Lives, Reducing Crime (UK)
- Victorian Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (AU)
- Home Office: Research Development and Statistics (U.K.)
- Human Rights Watch (US)
- Restorative Justice Online (US)
- Centre on Juvenile & Criminal Justice (US)
- Sentencing Project: Research and Advocacy for Reform (US)