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Debris and fire-scarred walls mark cellblock area where 20 prisoners in a city hall jail at Saint John died last night
Debris and fire-scarred walls mark cellblock area where 20 prisoners in a city hall jail at Saint John died last night

Debris and fire-scarred walls mark cellblock area where 20 prisoners in a city hall jail at Saint John died last night

Date6/22/1977
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Original Toronto Star caption: Debris and fire-scarred walls mark cellblock area where 20 prisoners in a city hall jail at Saint John died last night. Seven short-term prisoners were injured; along with six policemen and a fireman. Police described many of the victims as petty criminals or drunks in for the night. They said the fire was set in a single padded cell. Police could be heard radioing frantically for keys.
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Area where fiv prisoners died in their cells in a fire during an investigation last month. The floor last Dec. 18 is still blackened by soot. Behind the coroner, Dr. A. broken and paint from the charred ceiling. Macdonald, is the rear entrance to the third-floor block, first men in Stratford jail call the area death row, officials said. [Incomplete]
Area where fiv prisoners died in their cells in a fire during an investigation last month. The floor last Dec. 18 is still blackened by soot. Behind the coroner, Dr. A. broken and paint from the charred ceiling. Macdonald, is the rear entrance to the third-floor block, first men in Stratford jail call the area death row, officials said. [Incomplete]
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Sodden debris in the courtyard of the reformatory is cleaned up by prisoners after the surrender
7/7/1952
Tons of rubble torn from cells and walls lie at the bottom of one of the cell ranges at Kingston Penitentiary, where 500 rioting prisoners were in con(...)
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4/23/1971
Only bars in metro's new jail are in this large cell in the receiving area where prisoners are kept until transferred to the single cells that look li(...)
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4/22/1977
In the jailhouse now: Acting Superintendent James Crawford inspects the jail cell area corridor where new video cameras have been installed in order to keep a closer watch on prisoners
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Arriving today for the inquest into the deaths of five prisoners in Stratford jail fire last December are two jail officials and relatives of one of t(...)
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Arriving today for the inquest into th deaths of five prisoners in Stratford jail fire last December are two jail officials and relatives of one of th(...)
Arriving today for the inquest into th deaths of five prisoners in Stratford jail fire last December are two jail officials and relatives of one of th(...)
2/10/1977
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Thousands of prisoners who died at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp during World War II weren't deliberately starved to death but died from a rash of diseases, according to a psychiatrist who was there in 1945. Russell William Barton, 61, of Rochester, N.Y., said that when he entered the camp on May 2, 1945, he had heard and believed that prisoners were deliberately starved to death by the Nazis.
2/7/1985
Debris of explosion on St. Clair Ave. is proved by police yesterday as spectators in foreground watch. Last night the searchers found the body of a yo(...)
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Debris cleanup: Emergency workers survey the damage after last night's storm, which ripped some aluminum from the roof of a nursing home
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Brant County Jail, showing door where prisoners made their escape
Brant County Jail, showing door where prisoners made their escape
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Looting aftermath: Rudy Gutknecht, 14, and Matthew Centeno, 2, comfort each other while watching area residents clean up debris at a looted mall
Looting aftermath: Rudy Gutknecht, 14, and Matthew Centeno, 2, comfort each other while watching area residents clean up debris at a looted mall
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