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Ex-Guard at Toronto (Don) Jail, Gary Dassy, 32, and his girlfriend, Jane Mannerholm, 30, stand in front of the jail where Dassy says he helped beat up(...)
Ex-Guard at Toronto (Don) Jail, Gary Dassy, 32, and his girlfriend, Jane Mannerholm, 30, stand in front of the jail where Dassy says he helped beat up(...)

Ex-Guard at Toronto (Don) Jail, Gary Dassy, 32, and his girlfriend, Jane Mannerholm, 30, stand in front of the jail where Dassy says he helped beat up(...)

Date9/26/1974
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  • Ex-Guard at Toronto (Don) Jail, Gary Dassy, 32, and his girlfriend, Jane Mannerholm, 30, stand in front of the jail where Dassy says he helped beat up(...)
  • Ex-Guard at Toronto (Don) Jail, Gary Dassy, 32, and his girlfriend, Jane Mannerholm, 30, stand in front of the jail where Dassy says he helped beat up 15 prisoners. Dassy, fired Aug. 30, Miss Mannerholm, a jail nurse who also quit, gave The Star details o
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Original Toronto Star caption: Ex-Guard at Toronto (Don) Jail, Gary Dassy, 32, and his girlfriend, Jane Mannerholm, 30, stand in front of the jail where Dassy says he helped beat up 15 prisoners. Dassy, fired Aug. 30, Miss Mannerholm, a jail nurse who also quit, gave The Star details o
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      As the inquiry into allegations of brutality at the Toronto (Don) Jail convened yesterday, nurse Jane Mannerholm, who formerly worked at the jail, arr(...)
      As the inquiry into allegations of brutality at the Toronto (Don) Jail convened yesterday, nurse Jane Mannerholm, who formerly worked at the jail, arr(...)
      Dassy, Gary
      11/25/1974
      Gary Dassy. Stirred up trouble
      Gary Dassy. Stirred up trouble
      Cooper, David
      4/28/1978
      Gary Dassy. Stirred up trouble
      Gary Dassy. Stirred up trouble
      Combs, Erin
      1/6/1975
      Dassy, Gary
      Dassy, Gary
      Dassy, Gary
      9/26/1974
      Dassy, Gary
      Dassy, Gary
      Cooper, David
      4/28/1978
      Sure, It's Harder for a convict to work than to stay in jail, but in long run it's better, says Jim Sharp himself an ex-con and now director of Standford House, where five such men live
      Sure, It's Harder for a convict to work than to stay in jail, but in long run it's better, says Jim Sharp himself an ex-con and now director of Standford House, where five such men live
      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      7/5/1978
      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(...)
      Darrell, Dick
      12/30/1967
      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
      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
      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
      The mysterious stranger, or, Memoirs of the noted Henry More Smith: containing a correct account of his extraordinary conduct during the thirteen months of his confinement in the jail of Kings County, province of New Brunswick, where he was convicted of horse stealing, and under sentence of death, and finally pardoned, and set at liberty. Also a sketch of his life and character. From his first appearance at Windsor, in Nova Scotia, in the year 1812, to the time of his apprehenssion and confinement. To which is added a history of his career up to 1841, embracing an account of his imprisonments and escates. Selected from the most authentic sources, both public and private
      The mysterious stranger, or, Memoirs of the noted Henry More Smith: containing a correct account of his extraordinary conduct during the thirteen months of his confinement in the jail of Kings County, province of New Brunswick, where he was convicted of horse stealing, and under sentence of death, and finally pardoned, and set at liberty. Also a sketch of his life and character. From his first appearance at Windsor, in Nova Scotia, in the year 1812, to the time of his apprehenssion and confinement. To which is added a history of his career up to 1841, embracing an account of his imprisonments and escates. Selected from the most authentic sources, both public and private
      Bates, Walter, 1760-1842
      Bwtween 1856 and 1863
      Lawyer Lou Kesten, left, and Thomas Wade Borden stand outside the Don Jail, where Borden had been imprisoned twice
      Lawyer Lou Kesten, left, and Thomas Wade Borden stand outside the Don Jail, where Borden had been imprisoned twice
      Goode, Jeff
      2/9/1970