Melissa McLetchie is a doctoral candidate of Caribbean descent in the Department of Sociology. She grew up in the City of Scarborough in Toronto, Ontario and for over 20 years has been in a relationship with a man who has a history of imprisonment. Melissa uses her experiences of supporting her incarcerated loved one to guide her academic research. Her unique social location as an insider\/outsider to both street culture and academia gives her work a raw and unique perspective into the collateral consequences of imprisonment and the Canadian \u201cjustice\u201d system. Melissa recently completed a Mitacs-funded qualitative research study exploring the experiences of women supporting an imprisoned loved one in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n
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