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Garden made by Ontario Reformatory inmates

Picture, 1926
Biggest riot in Ontario penal history, the week-en outbreak at the Ontario reformatory, Guelph, shown in this airphoto, caused damage estimated up to $1,000,000 as the institution was left in partial ruins

Picture, 1952
Degrading and inhuman were two of the descriptions used to describe the Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women on King near Dufferin St. Wreckers are tearing the place down and it's costing more to raze it than it did to build it. Aside from the regular cells shown here there were windowless dungeon cells. The residents of Mercer were transferred to Brampton's Vanier Centre on April 3.

Picture, 1969
Prison official John Walker indicates the 9-by-18-inch window gap seven prisoners escaped through at Guelph

Picture, 1979
Guelph inmate in single cell.

Picture, 1971
Guelph Reformatory riot

Picture, 1952
Windows at the reformatory were smashed during the rioting and glass littered the floors inside the building and out in the courtyard

Picture, 1952
Casualty in unprecedented riot at the Ontario reformatory, Guelph, a prisoner is carried out on a stretcher. An estimated 600 of the 931 inmates took part in the outbreak armed with knives, chunks of concrete, iron pipes and bowling pins

Picture, 1952
A beauty spot along the Guelph Highway at the Ontario Reformatory at Guelph

Picture, 1925
Guelph Reformatory riot

Picture, 1952

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