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Garden made by Ontario Reformatory inmates

Picture, 1926

Another collapsed prisoner is shown here while men at right in line have taken their shoes off for some relief

Picture, 1952

Guelph Reformatory riot

Picture, 1952

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

Picture, 1929

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

Heat takes its toll of hungry, sweltering prisoners in the sun-scorched yard of the Ontario reformatory at Guelph as five men can be seen collapsed on the ground in circles at right

Picture, 1952

Mercer Reformatory, Toronto

Picture, 1948

Shotgun at ready and with axe handles as clubs, the guard and his comrades are on the alert for new disturbances as the Guelph riot ended on a single command from superintendent, Gerald Wright

Picture, 1952

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

A beauty spot along the Guelph Highway at the Ontario Reformatory at Guelph

Picture, 1925

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

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

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

Prisoners run for shelter as water, tear gas pours on them

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

Several thousand dollars damage was done inclduing broken windows; in riot that started with sit-down strike. Girls tried to break down door to freedom; charged prisoners had received harsh treatment.

Picture, 1948

Bursting among rioting prisoners at the Ontario reformatory, Guelph, tear gas bombs help quell violence

Picture, 1952

Guelph Reformatory

Picture, 1948

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

Picture, 1933

Guard hurls tear gas bomb through door into reformatory compound

Picture, 1952

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Garden made by Ontario Reformatory inmates

Another collapsed prisoner is shown here while men at right in line have taken their shoes off for some relief

Guelph Reformatory riot

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

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.

Heat takes its toll of hungry, sweltering prisoners in the sun-scorched yard of the Ontario reformatory at Guelph as five men can be seen collapsed on the ground in circles at right

Mercer Reformatory, Toronto

Shotgun at ready and with axe handles as clubs, the guard and his comrades are on the alert for new disturbances as the Guelph riot ended on a single command from superintendent, Gerald Wright

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

A beauty spot along the Guelph Highway at the Ontario Reformatory at Guelph

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.

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

Prisoners run for shelter as water, tear gas pours on them

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.

Several thousand dollars damage was done inclduing broken windows; in riot that started with sit-down strike. Girls tried to break down door to freedom; charged prisoners had received harsh treatment.

Bursting among rioting prisoners at the Ontario reformatory, Guelph, tear gas bombs help quell violence

Guelph Reformatory

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

Guard hurls tear gas bomb through door into reformatory compound

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