Read Dr. William Hébert’s new article in the December 2020 special issue of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society
Dr. William Hébert’s latest article, “” was published in the December 2020 special issue
In this paper, Dr. Hébert analyses policy documents and interviews conducted in federal prisons to trace the emergence and early effects of Canada’s recent wave of groundbreaking trans correctional reforms. Dr. Hébert argues that through their implementation, trans correctional reforms reveal that rights and risks are caught in an ambivalent and co-constitutive relationship in Canada’s regime of prison governance. Read Dr. Hébert’s article to learn about how the policies were implemented, and how the correctional administrators, staff and trans prisoners experienced the risks and uncertainties of the reforms.