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Wreckage left by 150 rioting Guelph prisoners is inspected by prison official Jim Cassidy

Picture, 1979
Wounded in battle, this prisoner is carried out of cell

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
Windowless cubicle in the basement of Mercer is a detention cell. Its only furnishings consist of an iron bed (without a mattress) and a chamber pot.

Picture, 1964
TS-2-125-GO-223

Picture, 1948
This pretty landscape work was done by prisoners at the Reformatory, Guelph, Ontario

Picture, 1929
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
The stone canoe-a unique rock formation dug up at the Ontario Reformatory; Guelph; when they were beautifying the grounds of the model institution. It is shown here as it has been mounted; on another peculiarly shaped stone in the little stream that runs alongside the grounds; tumbling over miniature rocky chasms into placid pools that form a delightful feature of the landscaping.

Picture, 1933
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
Sodden debris in the courtyard of the reformatory is cleaned up by prisoners after the surrender

Picture, 1952

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