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Adopted person born to a criminalized and incarcerated mother at the Andrew Mercer Reformatory. Many adoptees across Canada remain unaware of their carceral birth histories. Follow @amreformatory.bsky.social. andrewmercerreformatory.org

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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 15h
Fascinating of who exactly was in this institution hasn't been widely reported. 🥚 MOTHER AND BABY HOMES COMMISSION OF INVESTIGATION FINAL REPORT 30 October 2020 Chapter 15: The Tuam Children’s Home
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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HOW DARE YOU? Sex Trade Survivors Urge UN CEDAW Committee to Reject Prostitution as Work
YouTube video by CATW International
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🥚 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Should Quebec lift its international adoption freeze? Parental hope, ethical concerns fuel debate | CBC News
It's been about two years since Quebec put most international adoptions on hold due to human trafficking concerns. The province wants to make sure better safeguards are in place, which some adult adop...
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Taken from his mother after her imprisonment, adopted at 9, he ran away at 13 and was on the road by 15.🥚
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Andrew Mercer Ontario Reformatory for Females @amreformatory.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Smith describes Ireland’s Magdalen laundries & its “architecture of containment” as a vast network of interlinked institutions. Canada had a similar architecture—a network of institutions & systems of confinement. The Andrew Mercer Reformatory was but one part of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r14y...
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Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment
YouTube video by Boston College Libraries
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🥚From one of Canada’s most celebrated journalists comes an intimate collection of interviews that illuminate the joys, pains, traumas, and triumphs of adoption—featuring conversations with John Irving, Jenny Heijun Wills, Marilyn Churley, and more. www.simonandschuster.ca/books/Relati...
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Relative Truths
From one of Canada’s most celebrated journalists comes an intimate collection of interviews that illuminate the joys, pains, traumas, and triumphs ...
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Children Living with Their Mothers in Prison — 2024 Global Prison Nursery Network Symposium
YouTube video by Children of Incarcerated Caregivers
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Senator Kim Pate @kpateonthehill.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Today is Prisoners’ Justice Day, an international day of remembrance to honour those who have died in custody and a day of action to advance the rights of incarcerated people. 1/3
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New York Tribune investigative reporter Matt Kozar returns to war-torn Ukraine on a personal mission – to help a heartbroken nurse find her baby girl stolen by Russian authorities.🥚 books.friesenpress.com/store/title/...
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Stolen at the FriesenPress Bookstore
New York Tribune investigative reporter Matt Kozar returns to war-torn Ukraine on a personal mission – to help a heartbroken nurse find her baby girl stolen by Russian authorities. Within days of ar...
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In this inspirational memoir, Marvin [adoptee] searches for his birth parents and battles his crack addiction with the help of the woman he loves, determined to start a family and to live his life crime and drug free.🥚 www.amazon.ca/Born-Prison-... @adopteereading.bsky.social
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Born in Prison: How I Survived Shootings, Stabbings, Prison, Crack Addiction, Manchester Gangs and Dog Attacks
Born in Prison: How I Survived Shootings, Stabbings, Prison, Crack Addiction, Manchester Gangs and Dog Attacks: Hitchman, Lee Marvin, Attwood, Shaun, O'Toole, Victoria: 9781912885268: Books - Amazon.ca
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Born into Care International Perspectives on the Removal of Babies at Birth 🥚 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook-o...
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Office of the Federal Housing Advocate @housinglogement.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
As the current National Housing Strategy reaches the end of its cycle in 2027–2028 and a new strategy is being developed, Canada has the chance to reflect on the lessons of the past decade and chart a new path forward.
Three blue checkmarks and a yellow home icon are on a baby blue background. The text on the left reads: “Consult the recommendations in our 2025-2026 annual report”.
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🥚 thoughtlessdel.substack.com/p/the-arcgit...
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The Arcgitecture of the Gap.
Listen now | Not For Official Use
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
What they don't mention are the women and girls who died there, or the babies born to incarcerated mothers and taken for adoption.
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Adoptees of Bluesky: Has anyone heard any critiques of the Northern Ireland redress scheme?🥚 www.executiveoffice-ni.gov.uk/news/ministe...
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Ministers welcome Public Inquiry and Redress Scheme legislation
First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly have welcomed the passage of the Inquiry (Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses) and Redress S...
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🥚Shame on Canada and others!👇
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Responses to Sweden’s 2025 Adoption Reckoning by @tobiashubinette.bsky.social, born in South Korea, adopted to Sweden, academic 🥚 intercountryadopteevoices.com/2026/07/08/r...
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Responses to Sweden’s 2025 Adoption Reckoning | InterCountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV)
Sweden’s 2025 Adoption Commission report sparks adoptee, parent and agency responses on apology, support, reform, reparations and accountability.
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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Andrew Mercer Ontario Reformatory for Females @amreformatory.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
1/6🧵 Ontario decided it needed a separate prison for women. The result was the Andrew Mercer Ontario Reformatory for Females, which opened on August 28, 1880. During the next 89 years, more than 20,000 women and girls would pass through its gates.
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
🥚I guarantee this adoptee would have no knowledge of their mother's tragic history of abuse. Image from the document dated Jan 26, 2026 Application to Institute Proceedings clg.org/Class-Action...
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Class action for victims of CIA-funded Montreal brainwashing experiments gets green light
YouTube video by CBC News
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🥚 www.pbs.org/video/baby-b...
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FRONTLINE | Baby Brokers | Season 2026 | Episode 7
Have lax laws left the for-profit adoption industry ripe for misconduct?
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I had no idea!! Almost 20,000 in psychiatric hospitals in Ireland!! What would Canada find? While I research the Mercer Reformatory, I have had a few touch base with me born in psychiatric hospitals and adopted. 🥚 Read the whole article here: theconversation.com/mother-and-b...
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
16x9 - Slave Labour: Magdalene Laundries disgraced Irish Catholic women In a 16x9 exclusive, we discover Canadian laundries and speak to a woman who says she was born into slave labour. 🥚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD9u...
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16x9 - Slave Labour: Magdalene Laundries disgraced Irish Catholic women
YouTube video by Crime Beat TV
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Office of the Federal Housing Advocate @housinglogement.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Last chance to share your feedback! The deadline to provide a written submission to the National Housing Council’s review panel on #AccessibleHousing is June 22! Make your submission here: nhc-cnl.ca/review-panel...
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National Housing Council - Shaping the future of housing in Canada through inclusion and participation
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Have lax laws left the for-profit adoption industry ripe for misconduct? FRONTLINE and Retro Report investigate how so-called baby brokers have targeted pregnant women and families looking to adopt, and an epicenter of the problem in Utah.🥚👇 www.pbs.org/video/baby-b...
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FRONTLINE | "Baby Brokers" - Preview | Season 2026 | Episode 7
Have lax laws left the for-profit adoption industry ripe for misconduct?
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Senator Kim Pate @kpateonthehill.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Research has consistently demonstrated that poverty, housing insecurity, untreated mental health challenges, addiction, childhood trauma, and a lack of community supports are among the strongest predictors of criminal legal system involvement. 6/8
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Senator Kim Pate @kpateonthehill.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
There is a common misconception that safe consumption sites encourage drug use. The purpose of these services is to save lives, recognizing that people cannot recover if they are dead. 1/12 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Dread and anxiety as Ottawa's last supervised injection sites prepare to close | CBC News
Ottawa’s last supervised drug consumption sites will close for good this week, and many within that community warn the city will come to regret it.
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Access to prison records was previously limited under claims that the YCJA protected the records of girls under 18. My group and I challenged this barrier and were successful. Learn more below.🥚👇
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Why do we comply? Habit? Trust? Because we've been taught not to question things? Millions filled out the long-form census without a second thought. Most of us don't recognize when our rights may be eroded until someone raises a red flag. www.jccf.ca/constitution...
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Constitutional challenge launched over compelled disclosure of sensitive personal information in 2026 census | Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms
CALGARY, AB: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces that lawyers funded by the Justice Centre have filed an application for judicial review in Federal Court challenging certain porti...
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
"The worst thing they did was make us grateful." Good explanation of how gratitude was manufactured among the Orphan Train riders.🥚 Hope the link works. www.facebook.com/reel/1770764...
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
@adopteereading.bsky.social A category for adoptees with a carceral birth, perhaps? Laureen Pittman and Deborah Jiang-Stein are both adoptees who have published books. Hopefully, mine will join them soon.🥚 Great website - thank you!👇
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Adoptee Reading @adopteereading.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Hello again, adoptee readers! This post explains why our website was inaccessible for several months. Adoptee Reading is now back online & ready to continue helping adopted people discover #adoption literature from the #adoptee perspective. adopteereading.com/2026/06/01/a...
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Adoptee Reading Is Back!
Hello again, adoptee readers! Some of you may have noticed that Adoptee Reading has been inaccessible for many months. In late 2025, I realized that the site was being inundated with traffic origin…
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pb...
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National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking - 2023-2025 Report
This report highlights efforts undertaken by federal departments between April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2025, to advance key commitments under the National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking. It also i...
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
🥚I corruption just never ends. They should be investigating prisons though in every country!!
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🥚A Saskatchewan group called AIM (Adopt Indian and Métis) aired May 30, 1968. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Adoption agency seeks homes for Indigenous and Métis children in 1968
A Saskatchewan group called AIM (Adopt Indian and Métis) describes its success at placing children in new homes. Aired May 30, 1968 on CBC-TV news with reporter Craig Oliver.
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
🥚Notably an empty chair. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwzJ...
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Tribunal in Montreal on alleged crimes against Indigenous children
YouTube video by CityNews
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
LANDMARK COURT DECISION COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING FOR HOW CANADA ADDRESSES HOMELESSNESS For the first time in nearly 25 years, a Canadian court has extended new constitutional protections—this time for the equality rights of people experiencing homelessness— housingrights.ca/waterloo-dec...
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The National Right to Housing Network
A national network dedicated to the progressive realization of the right to housing in Canada, and its meaningful implementation.
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Watch now! International Tribunal to Investigate Alleged Crimes Against Indigenous Children in Canada’s Residential Schools events.firstclassfacilitation.ca/events/the-p...
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The Permanent People’s Tribunal on Missing Indigenous Children and Unmarked Graves - FCCF Events
The public session will occur in Montreal, Quebec, May 25-29, 2026. It will feature testimonies, arguments, and deliberations that will inform the Tribunal’s advisory opinion and findings.
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Andrew Mercer Ontario Reformatory for Females @amreformatory.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Imagine if a rights-based approach to housing & homelessness had existed when Mercer was open (1880–1969). How many of the 20,000+ women & girls would have been safely housed instead of being criminalized & incarcerated? Many were confined there & exploited as forced labour at Mercer Industries.
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Adoptee Advocates of Michigan @aaom-adoptees.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
No child is “saved” by a system that protects adults and agencies while ignoring the rights of the child. Placing a child into a different family doesn't justify erasing their identity, and adoption can't be considered ethical care when a child’s humanity and rights are disregarded in the process.🥚
No child is 'saved' by a system that ignores their rights. Adoptee Advocates of Michigan.
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🥚 www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...
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Proposed $66-million settlement reached in class action over B.C.’s use of ‘birth alerts’
Practice disproportionately affected Indigenous women and often resulted in newborns being apprehended
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🥚The Female Refuges Act (1893–1964) functioned as a mechanism of imprisonment and facilitated the removal of babies for adoption. More on the Act here 👇
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
🥚A recent data breach at the National Center for the Rights of the Child (NCRC), exposing sensitive personal records of adoptees, is drawing criticism from overseas adoptee groups and raising questions about the agency's credibility. www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...
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Korea's child rights agency data mishandling draws ire from overseas adoptees - The Korea Times
A recent data breach at the National Center for the Rights of the Child (NCRC), exposing sensitive personal records of adoptees, is drawing critici...
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
🥚Children born during the occupation to a French mother and a German soldier are still considered children of shame to this day. In this film, they finally dare to speak about their fate... www.youtube.com/watch?v=focD...
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ENFANTS DE BOCHES
YouTube video by imineo Documentaires
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Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
🥚Adoptee Rights Australia is calling for a Royal Commission into adoption in Australia. Adoption is not a single moment in time — it is a lifelong legal and social process that affects identity, family, belonging, and wellbeing across generations. adopteerightsaustralia.org.au/royal-commis...
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Royal Commission Into Adoption - Adoptee Rights Australia
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