Piché has used access to information research to expose the Conservative government’s crime and punishment agenda, and mobilize and circulate information about new prison capacity expansion in Canada. His current research explores carceral expansion and abolitionist alternatives in the Canadian context, public criminology and social movements, and cultural representations of confinement and punishment in penal history museums. Recent publications include a chapter in Brokering Access: Power, Politics, and Freedom of Information Process in Canada (2012) and articles in the Canadian Journal of Law and Society (2011), Penal Field (2014), and Social Justice (2015).