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  2. Kingston Penitentiary - Wikipedia

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    Kingston Penitentiary, c. 1901. Kingston Penitentiary cellblock. Unique architecture under dome connecting the shop buildings. Constructed from 1833 to 1834 and opened on June 1, 1835, as the "Provincial Penitentiary of the Province of Upper Canada", it was one of the oldest prisons in continuous use in the world at the time of its closure in ...

  3. 1971 Kingston Penitentiary riot - Wikipedia

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    Kingston Penitentiary had been opened on 1 June 1835 and was the oldest prison in Canada. [ 1] The federal prison was widely considered to be the harshest prison in Canada and in 1971 it held 641 prisoners. [ 2] A journalist, Ron Tripp, who visited Kingston penitentiary wrote: "As soon you walked in, you had a sense that society had crushed and ...

  4. Wayne Ford (criminal) - Wikipedia

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    Ford was arrested in Toronto and following his conviction for escaping lawful custody, he was sent to Kingston Penitentiary. [1] On 16 October 1966, Minnie Ford's corpse floated to the surface of Lake Couchiching and washed ashore. [2] At the time, Ford was already in prison for other crimes and he was charged with first-degree murder. [1]

  5. Billy Knight (criminal) - Wikipedia

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    The Kingston Penitentiary riot Sometime in March 1971, Knight began planning an uprising to take control of the prison. [4] Knight's plan called for a group of prisoners to overpower the guards and then use the keys to release the other prisoners.

  6. Millhaven Institution - Wikipedia

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    Warden. Kevin Snedden. Millhaven Institution ( French: Établissement de Millhaven) is a maximum security prison located in Bath, Ontario. Approximately 500 inmates are incarcerated at Millhaven. [ 1] Opened in 1971, Millhaven was originally built to replace Ontario's other aging maximum security prison, Kingston Penitentiary in Kingston Ontario.

  7. Barrie MacKenzie - Wikipedia

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    MacKenzie was born in Hamilton into a broken home. [1] During his childhood, he was placed "in care" and grew up in 14 different foster homes, lonely and unloved. [1] After being convicted of theft, he was sent to the Guelph Reformatory. [1] In 1968, he was arrested for armed robbery and escaped from the Halton County jail in Milton by knocking ...

  8. Ty Conn - Wikipedia

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    Known for. Escaping from Kingston Penitentiary. Tyrone Williams "Ty" Conn (January 18, 1967 – May 20, 1999), born Ernest Bruce Hayes, [ 1] was a Canadian bank robber. He was the only person in the last half-century to escape over the wall from the Kingston Penitentiary, one of Canada's most secure prisons.

  9. Ron Haggart - Wikipedia

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    The Kingston Penitentiary riot On 14 April 1971, a prison riot started at Kingston Penitentiary led by the prison barber Billy Knight with the inmates taking six prison guards as hostages. Knight did not trust the Crown to negotiate in good faith and demanded that citizens committee be formed to mediate an end to the crisis. [8]

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