Download or read book Imprisoning Our Sisters written by Stephanie Hayman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-07-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal Prison for Women in Kingston, an isolated, unsafe penitentiary characterized as "unfit for bears, much less women," finally closed in 2000. Stephanie Hayman charts the development of the five new prisons that replaced it, including an Aboriginal healing lodge, placing her study within the context of Canadian colonial and political history.