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Don jail guards scheduled to go on duty this morning show up instead with placards and picket the jail, which has a full house of 700 prisoners. Thirt(...)
Don jail guards scheduled to go on duty this morning show up instead with placards and picket the jail, which has a full house of 700 prisoners. Thirt(...)

Don jail guards scheduled to go on duty this morning show up instead with placards and picket the jail, which has a full house of 700 prisoners. Thirt(...)

Date12/30/1967
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Original Toronto Star caption: Don jail guards scheduled to go on duty this morning show up instead with placards and picket the jail; which has a full house of 700 prisoners. Thirty Metro police moved into the jail to join 23 supervisory personnel in carrying out guards' duties. Men are protesting the transfer of jail to provincial government.
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      Object NumberTSPA_0016417F
      Don jail guards scheduled to go on duty this morning show up instead with placards protesting takeover of jail by Ontario, costing them union membership, benefits
      Don jail guards scheduled to go on duty this morning show up instead with placards protesting takeover of jail by Ontario, costing them union membership, benefits
      Darrell, Dick
      12/30/1967
      Panel controlling all locks in Rexdale's new $15 million jail is tested by Supt. W. L. Barber yesterday. Known officially as the Metropolitan Toronto West Detention Centre it will help ease chronic overcrowding at Toronto (Don) Jail - but my almost doubling its capacity. Officials are facing the challenge of housing 340 inmates in a building designed for 200. The cells will contain two prisoners instead of one.
      Panel controlling all locks in Rexdale's new $15 million jail is tested by Supt. W. L. Barber yesterday. Known officially as the Metropolitan Toronto West Detention Centre it will help ease chronic overcrowding at Toronto (Don) Jail - but my almost doubling its capacity. Officials are facing the challenge of housing 340 inmates in a building designed for 200. The cells will contain two prisoners instead of one.
      Slaughter, Mike
      7/13/1977
      Don jail guards, Don Martin, John Berezuk and Alex Heron Picket old city hall in bid to keep fellow union members from reporting to work as court cler(...)
      Don jail guards, Don Martin, John Berezuk and Alex Heron Picket old city hall in bid to keep fellow union members from reporting to work as court cler(...)
      Darrell, Dick
      1/2/1968
      Court clerks Ed Bavington (left) and Bruce Hind were fired this morning because they continued picketing old city hall in support of Don Jail guards, (...)
      Court clerks Ed Bavington (left) and Bruce Hind were fired this morning because they continued picketing old city hall in support of Don Jail guards, (...)
      Darrell, Dick
      1/2/1968
      Don guards march to save their union, Protesting takeover of Don jail by the provincial government, about 100 jail guards today staged Queen's Park pr(...)
      Don guards march to save their union, Protesting takeover of Don jail by the provincial government, about 100 jail guards today staged Queen's Park pr(...)
      Goode, Jeff
      12/27/1967
      Guards demand better pensions, About 200 angry jail guards picket outside a downtown government building today in a protest over contract talks. The g(...)
      Guards demand better pensions, About 200 angry jail guards picket outside a downtown government building today in a protest over contract talks. The g(...)
      Lennon, Frank
      4/6/1989
      Don Jail's superintendent Gerald Whitehead says rehabilitation there is difficult because prisoners are brought to the Don for only a short time
      Don Jail's superintendent Gerald Whitehead says rehabilitation there is difficult because prisoners are brought to the Don for only a short time
      Goode, Jeff
      5/28/1971
      Free at last Jail guards' union leader Sean O'Flynn, who went to jail over an illegal strike by his members, was freed today as guards sang For He's a(...)
      Free at last Jail guards' union leader Sean O'Flynn, who went to jail over an illegal strike by his members, was freed today as guards sang For He's a(...)
      Bull, Ron
      1/25/1980
      Toronto's Old Don Jail is in the headlines again, as guards protest change in administration
      Toronto's Old Don Jail is in the headlines again, as guards protest change in administration
      Darrell, Dick
      1/1/1968
      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
      Mahler, John
      12/2/1976
      Arriving today for the inquest into the deaths of five prisoners in Stratford jail fire last December are two jail officials and relatives of one of t(...)
      Arriving today for the inquest into the deaths of five prisoners in Stratford jail fire last December are two jail officials and relatives of one of t(...)
      Spremo, Boris
      2/10/1977
      Arriving today for the inquest into th deaths of five prisoners in Stratford jail fire last December are two jail officials and relatives of one of th(...)
      Arriving today for the inquest into th deaths of five prisoners in Stratford jail fire last December are two jail officials and relatives of one of th(...)
      Spremo, Boris
      2/10/1977