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Only bars in metro's new jail are in this large cell in the receiving area where prisoners are kept until transferred to the single cells that look li(...)
Only bars in metro's new jail are in this large cell in the receiving area where prisoners are kept until transferred to the single cells that look li(...)

Only bars in metro's new jail are in this large cell in the receiving area where prisoners are kept until transferred to the single cells that look li(...)

Date4/22/1977
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Original Toronto Star caption: Only bars in metro's new jail are in this large cell in the receiving area where prisoners are kept until transferred to the single cells that look like rooms in a boarding school. Arthur Meen, minister of correctional services, stands behind bars while John Walter, deputy superintendent, holds cell door. Individual cells in new $12 million East Metro Detention Centre have AM-FM radios, private toilets and sinks, writing desks, padded chairs and smoke detectors. Published in Toronto Star, 25 April 1977, page C1, with article ''$12 million 'humane' new jail is open''. (43.7263263, -79.2804471)
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    GeographyBuilding Monument ParkToronto East Detention Centre (Toronto, Ont.)||East Metro Detention Centre (Toronto, Ont.)
    GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
    GeographyNeighbourhoodClairlea-Golden Mile
    GeographyEast-west streetCivic Road
    GeographyHistorical locationScarborough (Ont.)
    GeographyProvince stateOntario
    GeographyCountryCanada
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
      Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0011164F
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      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
      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.
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      Slaughter, Mike
      7/13/1977
      Tons of rubble torn from cells and walls lie at the bottom of one of the cell ranges at Kingston Penitentiary, where 500 rioting prisoners were in con(...)
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      Ross, Fred
      4/23/1971
      In the jailhouse now: Acting Superintendent James Crawford inspects the jail cell area corridor where new video cameras have been installed in order to keep a closer watch on prisoners
      In the jailhouse now: Acting Superintendent James Crawford inspects the jail cell area corridor where new video cameras have been installed in order to keep a closer watch on prisoners
      Bull, Ron
      7/23/1984
      Cells in the Toronto (Don) Jail were examined by Star reporter Steve Handelman after a prisoner hanged himself
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      Barkley, Harold
      11/19/1974
      Metro West Detention Centre with Superintendent John Walter in two different cells/standing in the four unit cell and sitting in the two unit cell-
      Metro West Detention Centre with Superintendent John Walter in two different cells/standing in the four unit cell and sitting in the two unit cell-
      Stuparyk, Michael
      5/23/1986
      Two Toronto juveniles who escaped from the women's cells at Barrie jail, shown here, are sought by police
      Two Toronto juveniles who escaped from the women's cells at Barrie jail, shown here, are sought by police
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      9/8/1947
      Solace in cells: Rev. Sylvia Dunstan, a United Church minister, shares a moment of prayer with an inmate at Whitby Jail. As chaplain to the 2,000 who (...)
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      Dunlop, Al
      8/2/1988
      Milheaven - Cells Area
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      Spremo, Boris
      10/21/1975
      Singles Bars are growing in popularity and numbers in Metro and young people and older people, singles, single-marrieds and some divorced look to them(...)
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      McConnell, Colin
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      Metro's first provincial jail-without-bars, to be called a community resource centre and run by the Ministry of Correctional Services, is to open this(...)
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      Darrell, Dick
      10/17/1974
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      Beaty, Keith
      8/2/1991