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Scratch the surface of almost any prisoner in Canada and you'll find a poverty background, says Michael Bolton, lawyer for the B.C. Prisoners Union Committee. At left, law student Karen Kahn.
Scratch the surface of almost any prisoner in Canada and you'll find a poverty background, says Michael Bolton, lawyer for the B.C. Prisoners Union Committee. At left, law student Karen Kahn.

Scratch the surface of almost any prisoner in Canada and you'll find a poverty background, says Michael Bolton, lawyer for the B.C. Prisoners Union Committee. At left, law student Karen Kahn.

Date8/7/1975
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  • Scratch the surface of almost any prisoner in Canada and you'll find a poverty background, says Michael Bolton, lawyer for the B.C. Prisoners Union Committee. At left, law student Karen Kahn.
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Law student, Karen Kahn and Lawyer Michael Bolton. They represent 'The Prisoners Union Committee' Vancouver, BC.
Law student, Karen Kahn and Lawyer Michael Bolton. They represent 'The Prisoners Union Committee' Vancouver, BC.
Mahler, John
8/7/1975
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
Thousands of prisoners who died at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp during World War II weren't deliberately starved to death but died from a rash of diseases, according to a psychiatrist who was there in 1945. Russell William Barton, 61, of Rochester, N.Y., said that when he entered the camp on May 2, 1945, he had heard and believed that prisoners were deliberately starved to death by the Nazis.
Thousands of prisoners who died at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp during World War II weren't deliberately starved to death but died from a rash of diseases, according to a psychiatrist who was there in 1945. Russell William Barton, 61, of Rochester, N.Y., said that when he entered the camp on May 2, 1945, he had heard and believed that prisoners were deliberately starved to death by the Nazis.
Faught, Ken
2/7/1985
Offers help: Winston Seeney of Oshawa is president of Ontario Candecide, an organization aimed at rehabilitating prisoners
Offers help: Winston Seeney of Oshawa is president of Ontario Candecide, an organization aimed at rehabilitating prisoners
Stuparyk, Michael
7/14/1982
Area where fiv prisoners died in their cells in a fire during an investigation last month. The floor last Dec. 18 is still blackened by soot. Behind the coroner, Dr. A. broken and paint from the charred ceiling. Macdonald, is the rear entrance to the third-floor block, first men in Stratford jail call the area death row, officials said. [Incomplete]
Area where fiv prisoners died in their cells in a fire during an investigation last month. The floor last Dec. 18 is still blackened by soot. Behind the coroner, Dr. A. broken and paint from the charred ceiling. Macdonald, is the rear entrance to the third-floor block, first men in Stratford jail call the area death row, officials said. [Incomplete]
Spremo, Boris
1/6/1977
Protest begins: Stephen Magwood, president of the High Park Homeowners and Residents Association, cuts a ribbon to signal the start of protests outside Exodus Link, a new counselling centre for paroled federal prisoners
Protest begins: Stephen Magwood, president of the High Park Homeowners and Residents Association, cuts a ribbon to signal the start of protests outside Exodus Link, a new counselling centre for paroled federal prisoners
Dunlop, Alan
1/5/1987
4-year prisoner: Apology is positive step but it's not enough, says John Stroud, president of the Hong Kong Veterans Association.
4-year prisoner: Apology is positive step but it's not enough, says John Stroud, president of the Hong Kong Veterans Association.
Power, Peter
5/28/1991
John Biermans, sipping a drink in the Colonnade in Toronto, says Norman Cafik, federal multiculturalism minister, kept him prisoner by force in trying to deprogram him from a new religious faith. Cafik denies the charge.
John Biermans, sipping a drink in the Colonnade in Toronto, says Norman Cafik, federal multiculturalism minister, kept him prisoner by force in trying to deprogram him from a new religious faith. Cafik denies the charge.
Slaughter, Mike
1/16/1978
Former prisoner of war, Etobicoke Controller Pete Farrow and his wife, Dorothy, model the sweatshirts they'll wear at a reunion of former air force PoWs in England next weekend. He spent three years as prisoner in World War II after being captured by Germ
Former prisoner of war, Etobicoke Controller Pete Farrow and his wife, Dorothy, model the sweatshirts they'll wear at a reunion of former air force PoWs in England next weekend. He spent three years as prisoner in World War II after being captured by Germ
McConnell, Colin
5/5/1977
Alex Bleakley relaxes with the old and new in his apartment in renovated downtown house. The interior designer says classic designs of any era can be mixed if surroundings are muted in color. In background is antique mantle clock contrasting with modern design of fabric-covered canvas.
Alex Bleakley relaxes with the old and new in his apartment in renovated downtown house. The interior designer says classic designs of any era can be mixed if surroundings are muted in color. In background is antique mantle clock contrasting with modern design of fabric-covered canvas.
Bezant, Graham
8/20/1971
Schools for Nepal: Michael Rojik, founder of Nepal School Projects, is responsible for building about 60 schools in the poverty-stricken Timal region
Schools for Nepal: Michael Rojik, founder of Nepal School Projects, is responsible for building about 60 schools in the poverty-stricken Timal region
Dunlop, Alan
1/22/1988
Just like any other tax: Lawyer Andy Friedman, above, says we are the only country that still penalizes manufatcurers with a 13.5-per-cent tax.
Just like any other tax: Lawyer Andy Friedman, above, says we are the only country that still penalizes manufatcurers with a 13.5-per-cent tax.
Eglinton, Rick
10/10/1990