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Pastel-painted cell in the new jail has a clothes closet, desk and night table built in
Pastel-painted cell in the new jail has a clothes closet, desk and night table built in

Pastel-painted cell in the new jail has a clothes closet, desk and night table built in

Date9/27/1978
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Original Toronto Star caption: Pastel-painted cell in the new jail has a clothes closet, desk and night table built in. The bed will have sheets and a foam mattress. Published in Toronto Star, 30 September 1976, page B3, with article ''New jails 'homelike' but they still have steel bars''. (43.7263263, -79.2804471)
GeographyBuilding Monument ParkToronto East Detention Centre (Toronto, Ont.)||East Metro Detention Centre (Toronto, Ont.)
GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
GeographyNeighbourhoodClairlea-Golden Mile
GeographyEast-west streetCivic Road
GeographyHistorical locationScarborough (Ont.)
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
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Photographs
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0011160F
One building's going up in scarborough, The new Metro Toronto East regional detention centre being built by the Ministry of Corrections on the site of(...)
One building's going up in scarborough, The new Metro Toronto East regional detention centre being built by the Ministry of Corrections on the site of(...)
11/12/1975
''A homelike atmosphere'' is the goal at the Metro East Detention Centre, says architect Istvan Lendvay
''A homelike atmosphere'' is the goal at the Metro East Detention Centre, says architect Istvan Lendvay
9/27/1976
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(...)
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(...)
4/22/1977
Inside a cell at Millhaven Penitentiary, the maximum-security federal penitentiary near Kingston, an inmate has room for a desk, chair and cot. But, p(...)
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10/21/1975
Jail cell Where 20-year-old Donald Raaflaub was found hanged Sept, 5 is opened by Richard Fleming, a correctional services officer, when an inquest ju(...)
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11/19/1974
Cells in the Toronto (Don) Jail were examined by Star reporter Steve Handelman after a prisoner hanged himself
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11/19/1974
Cell in which 16-year-old Meredith Coleman was incarcerated is in Toronto Jail, the only place a judge can remand in custody those over 16 and under 18. There are options for those under 16
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4/28/1974
In this forbidding jail at St. Joseph de Beauce, Lucille Boucher was kept in the cell which eight years ago housed a woman who murdered her husband by a combination of arsenic, witchcraft
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1/13/1947
The jail question: the English and continental system recommended.
The jail question: the English and continental system recommended.
Approximately 1897
Metro West Detention Centre with Superintendent John Walter in two different cells/standing in the four unit cell and sitting in the two unit cell-
Metro West Detention Centre with Superintendent John Walter in two different cells/standing in the four unit cell and sitting in the two unit cell-
5/23/1986
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
Metro West - in cell Diane Keeping, 20-left Kathy Gugins, 33 - her bibles open in background
Metro West - in cell Diane Keeping, 20-left Kathy Gugins, 33 - her bibles open in background
3/15/1995