She worked as a ressearcher and policy advisor for the Commission of Inquiry into Certain Events at the Prison for Women in Kingston. She is a past-president of the Toronto Elizabeth Fry Society, a halfway house and organization that works for and on behalf of all women in conflict with the law. Her publications include: Punishment in Disguise: The Governance of Canadian Women’s Federal Imprisonment, “Moral Agent Or Actuarial Subject: Risk and Canadian Women’s Imprisonment” and “Prisons that Empower: Neoliberal Governance in Canadian Women’s Prisons.”