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The jail question: the English and continental system recommended.
The jail question: the English and continental system recommended.
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The jail question: the English and continental system recommended.

DateApproximately 1897
Format
Notes
Film copy: CIHM 12207
Medium
DimensionsCover size: 22 cm x 15 cm (8 11/16 in. x 5 7/8 in.)
Language
CollectionBaldwin Collection of Canadiana
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession Number37131052113255D
Dewey Number365.97135 J11 \B BR
Catalogue Record for Print Bookhttps://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Ntt=1127522
Country:Canada
Building, monument or park:Don Jail (Toronto, Ont. : 1864-2013)
City, town or township:Toronto
Province or state:Ontario
As the inquiry into allegations of brutality at the Toronto (Don) Jail convened yesterday, nurse Jane Mannerholm, who formerly worked at the jail, arr(...)
As the inquiry into allegations of brutality at the Toronto (Don) Jail convened yesterday, nurse Jane Mannerholm, who formerly worked at the jail, arr(...)
11/25/1974
Ex-Guard at Toronto (Don) Jail, Gary Dassy, 32, and his girlfriend, Jane Mannerholm, 30, stand in front of the jail where Dassy says he helped beat up(...)
Ex-Guard at Toronto (Don) Jail, Gary Dassy, 32, and his girlfriend, Jane Mannerholm, 30, stand in front of the jail where Dassy says he helped beat up(...)
9/26/1974
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
9/27/1978
Façade of a three-storey brick building with small barred windows on either side of a protrudin ...
Don Jail, Gerrard Street East, north side, between the Don River and Broadview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
10/15/1913
Edward Davies escaped from Simcoe County Jail, Barrie, Ontario
Edward Davies escaped from Simcoe County Jail, Barrie, Ontario
8/26/1938
Prisoners in mexican jail have set up a crafts shop to raise money to help buy food and clothing
Prisoners in mexican jail have set up a crafts shop to raise money to help buy food and clothing
12/2/1976
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
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
1/13/1947
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(...)
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(...)
11/19/1974
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
Toronto jail guard William Stafford confronts Metro Police Sgt
Toronto jail guard William Stafford confronts Metro Police Sgt
5/29/1975
It will soon be just a memory for Gifford Chard, who has spent 23 years as a correctional officer at Toronto (Don) Jail
It will soon be just a memory for Gifford Chard, who has spent 23 years as a correctional officer at Toronto (Don) Jail
11/10/1977
Cells in the Toronto (Don) Jail were examined by Star reporter Steve Handelman after a prisoner hanged himself
Cells in the Toronto (Don) Jail were examined by Star reporter Steve Handelman after a prisoner hanged himself
11/19/1974