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I find it repugnant that in the 1980s in Ontario we are still housing inmates in cells that are seven feet deep, 32 inches wide and seven feet high, h(...)
I find it repugnant that in the 1980s in Ontario we are still housing inmates in cells that are seven feet deep, 32 inches wide and seven feet high, h(...)

I find it repugnant that in the 1980s in Ontario we are still housing inmates in cells that are seven feet deep, 32 inches wide and seven feet high, h(...)

Date7/9/1983
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  • I find it repugnant that in the 1980s in Ontario we are still housing inmates in cells that are seven feet deep, 32 inches wide and seven feet high, h(...)
  • I find it repugnant that in the 1980s in Ontario we are still housing inmates in cells that are seven feet deep, 32 inches wide and seven feet high, have no running water, toilet facilities or interior lighting. Ontario Ombudsman Daniel Hill, on the province's treatment of prisoners.
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Original Toronto Star caption: I find it repugnant that in the 1980s in Ontario we are still housing inmates in cells that are seven feet deep, 32 inches wide and seven feet high, have no running water, toilet facilities or interior lighting. Ontario Ombudsman Daniel Hill, on the province's treatment of prisoners.
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      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
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      Image shows a ship on the lake.
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      Toronto Star (Firm)
      3/27/1930
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      Teskey, Frank
      5/19/1967
      Contrasting clergy: Rev. Ron Nickle, the minister at Lansing United Church, and his assistant, Rev. Lynne Bandy, compare statures. She's five feet on good days. He's six feet, two inches
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      Slaughter, Mike
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      Loek, Dick
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      James Worrall, president of the Canadian Olympic Association, is 6 feet 5 inches and wears size 50 tall
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      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
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      Slaughter, Mike
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      Adamson, Harold
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      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
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      Spremo, Boris
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