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Stark; cramped cell is all too typical of the living quarters provided for inmates at Mercer Reformatory in Toronto. They are no larger than the stalls for horses at the CNE. Many are without windows and the girls try to brighten them up by putting small pictures on the walls.

Picture, 1964
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
Guelph Reformatory riot

Picture, 1952
This is the Lindsay County Jail where Mrs. Jean McAllister is prisoner pending hearing on the charge of murder of her husband. Prisoners cut away ivy vines that extended to the third-storey windows yesterday.

Picture, 1948
Hold-outs after riot was quelled after closely watched by guards armed with shotguns threatening the 200 if they again became unruly, violent after others surrendered

Picture, 1952
No locks on the doors…no bars on the windows at new women’s reformatory at Brampton

Picture, 1959
Guard hurls tear gas bomb through door into reformatory compound

Picture, 1952
Quelled convicts are shown above standing in courtyard of Guelph Reformatory today after three outbreaks of rioting in three days

Picture, 1959
Inmates of the Ontario Reformatory at Guelph have made this beauty spot where formerly ran a weedy little stream

Picture, 1933
TS-2-125-GO-223

Picture, 1948

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