| Opponents to Canada's security certificate law are working hard to stop Bill C3. The Bill sets up a special advocate model of security certificates.

| A look at some of the changes happening in Canada's prison system. Focus on the impact of the tough on crime bills, the prison review panel and the Correctional Investigator's Annual Report.

| The Vancouver Aboriginal Transformative Justice Society talks about their work and philosophy in providing community-based alternatives to the mainstream criminal justice system.

| Interview with Cheri Snook, who helped organize a Michael Franti Concert at Folsom prison. Includes music highlights from the concert.

| Musician and activist Faith Nolan talks about the music therapy work she does with women in prison.

| A recent report looks at the experiences of those on welfare in BC and helps expose the connections between poverty, welfare policies and "crime".

| <a href="http://www.womenandprison.org/index.html" target="_blank">A new website</a> brings together stories of incarcerated women, challenging mainstream notions of justice, crime and punishment.

| A new compilation of writing and art by women in prison shares the stories, creativity and struggles of women living behind bars in Canada.

| Risk assessment approaches being used to manage prisoners are framed as objective, but in reality these approaches ignore systemic issues such as colonization and further isolate marginalized girls.

| These little trackable chips are being used more and more, from warehouse inventory, to U.S. passports, to keeping track of animals and even children.

| Using police, prisons and punishment to deal with gangs is ineffective. A report by the Justice Policy Institute documents why.

| Marcel Gagnon, Aboriginal singer and songwriter, talks about the sweats he leads inside a Northern BC Jail and the role they play in the lives of those who participate.

| A look at role and reality of books behind bars. Focus on the work of Books 2 Prisoners Vancouver, a grassroots group who sends free reading material inside to prisoners.

| &quot;Joe Convict&quot;, a prisoner who has been in segregation for several months in an Ontario prison, talks of his struggle with the prison authorities and his fight for human rights behind bars.

| Christine tells her story of how she almost died after not receiving proper medical treatment from the privatized health services at the Alouette Correctional Centre for Women in Maple Ridge, BC.

| An investigation of the connections between neo-liberal economic policies and our concepts of what constitutes “crime”.

| More police and jailtime won't get to the root of the issue of gang violence. But maybe legalizing drugs would. How would that work?

| In Canada, people are no longer directly criminalized by the state for being queer or trans. But that doesn't mean there aren't a lot of connections between prisons, queerness and activism.

| The Alternatives to Violence Project provides a space for community members and prisoners to understand their relationships to themselves and others, and learn the skills of non-violent living.

| From "Safe Assembly Zones" to "Brand Violation" patrols, there is little to celebrate when it comes to the 2010 games and civil liberties. David Eby of the BCCLA gives us the lowdown.

| Author and activist Chris Shaw on defending civil liberties in face of the Olympic security regime.

| Gary Kinsman, co-author of the Canadian War on Queers, on the crackdown on queer folk and their resistance as part of the "clean up" leading up to the 1976 Montreal Olympic games.

| Lawyer and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Advocate David Boulding shares his take on FASD and the criminal justice system.

| A lifer on his experiences on the inside and outside marking Prison Justice Day (an annual memorial and protest day) and how the prison system is making PJD harder for those on the inside.

| Hundreds of prisoners are on hunger strike at Toronto East Detention Centre to protest inadequate conditions including healthcare, food and arbitrary lockdowns.

| A dairy farmer talks about her fight to save the prison farms and why she is willing to engage in civil disobedience to do so.

| Bill S-10 is Parliament's latest effort to introduce mandatory minimum sentences for various drug crimes. Researchers say they don’t work and will actually make things much worse.

| Dawn has learned first hand of the arbitrary nature and lack of due process inside the prison walls. She isn't afraid to speak out about the injustices her husband is facing behind bars.

| How do girls end up in the justice system? Why are conditions set on girls for their bail or parole more punitive than for any other population? Ellie interviews Asia Czapska of Justice For Girls.

| Author Martha Ackmann speaks with Ellie Gordon-Moershel about the life of Toni Stone -- the first woman to play professional baseball in the Negro League.

| Farrah Khan, a counsellor and advocate at a violence against women legal clinic, explains the spectrum of violence against women and the repercussions of the media coverage of the Shafia trial.

| The F Word interviews Vicki Moulder, a PhD student at Simon Fraser University, and Jen Pearson, a Vancouver-based electronic artist, about Vancouver's Utopia Festival happening at W2 Media Cafe.

| The F Word speaks with Juliane Okot Bitek, a woman who has been close to the conflict in Northern Uganda since 1986 and the president of the Acholi Community of British Columbia society.

| The F Word speaks with Barbara Howard, soon to be 92-year-old former sprinter and B.C. Sports Hall of Fame inductee.

| Lindsay Kite of Beauty Redefined speaks with The F Word about misleading women's fitness advertising, body-shaming, and whether being fit is entirely about how you look.