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Author : Peter H. Hennessy
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1550023306
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Canada's Big House written by Peter H. Hennessy and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Kingston Penitentiarys rapid descent from puritanical purpose to merely punitive management.
Author : Catherine Fogarty
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 1771964022
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)
Download or read book Murder on the Inside written by Catherine Fogarty and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Speaker's Book Award • Shortlisted for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book “You have taken our civil rights—we want our human rights.” On April 14, 1971, a handful of prisoners attacked the guards at Kingston Penitentiary and seized control, making headlines around the world. For four intense days, the prisoners held the guards hostage while their leaders negotiated with a citizens’ committee of journalists and lawyers, drawing attention to the dehumanizing realities of their incarceration, including overcrowding, harsh punishment and extreme isolation. But when another group of convicts turned their pent-up rage towards some of the weakest prisoners, tensions inside the old stone walls erupted, with tragic consequences. As heavily armed soldiers prepared to regain control of the prison through a full military assault, the inmates were finally forced to surrender. Murder on the Inside tells the harrowing story of a prison in crisis against the backdrop of a pivotal moment in the history of human rights. Occurring just months before the uprising at Attica Prison, the Kingston riot has remained largely undocumented, and few have known the details—yet the tense drama chronicled here is more relevant today than ever. A gripping account of the standoff and the efforts for justice and reform it inspired, Murder on the Inside is essential reading for our times. Includes 24 pages of photographs.
Author : Karen M. Morin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317532627
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Historical Geographies of Prisons written by Karen M. Morin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to provide a comprehensive historical-geographical lens to the development and evolution of correctional institutions as a specific subset of carceral geographies. This book analyzes and critiques global practices of incarceration, regimes of punishment, and their corresponding spaces of "corrections" from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It examines individuals' experiences within various regulatory regimes and spaces of punishment, and offers an interpretation of spaces of incarceration as cultural-historical artifacts. The book also analyzes the spatial-distributional geographies of incarceration, particularly with respect to their historical impact on community political-economic development and local geographies. Contributions within this book examine a range of prison sites and the practices that take place within them to help us understand how regimes of punishment are experienced, and are constructed in different kinds of ways across space and time for very different ends. The overall aim of this book is to help understand the legacies of carceral geographies in the present. The resonances across space and time tell a profound story of social and spatial legacies and, as such, offer important insights into the prison crisis we see in many parts of the world today.
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Publisher : Black Dog Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781908966766
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (667 download)
Download or read book Inside Kingston Penitentiary, 1835-2013 written by and published by Black Dog Pub Limited. This book was released on 2014 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photoessay exploring Kingston Penitentiary, the former maximum security prison, often referred to as Canada's Alcatraz.
Author : Ted McCoy
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1926836960
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Hard Time written by Ted McCoy and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The success and failure of prison reform and the corresponding social history of punishment in Canada.
Author : Timothy P. Bowman
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623495695
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Farming across Borders written by Timothy P. Bowman and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming across Borders uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of the Pacific Rim, now writ large into a broad history of the North American West. Case studies of commodity production and distribution, trans-border agricultural labor, and environmental change unite to reveal new perspectives on a historiography traditionally limited to a regional approach. Sterling Evans has curated nineteen essays to explore the contours of “big” agricultural history. Crops and commodities discussed include wheat, cattle, citrus, pecans, chiles, tomatoes, sugar beets, hops, henequen, and more. Toiling over such crops, of course, were the people of the North American West, and as such, the contributing authors investigate the role of agricultural labor, from braceros and Hutterites to women working in the sorghum fields and countless other groups in between. As Evans concludes, “society as a whole (no matter in what country) often ignores the role of agriculture in the past and the present.” Farming across Borders takes an important step toward cultivating awareness and understanding of the agricultural, economic, and environmental connections that loom over the North American West regardless of lines on a map. In the words of one essay, “we are tied together . . . in a hundred different ways.”
Author : Vern Thibedeau
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781462029259
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (292 download)
Download or read book The Door written by Vern Thibedeau and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Canadian corrections offi cer Vern Thibedeau, it all began at Disney Worldor at least the penitentiary that ironically carried that nickname. Within ten months, he is seriously injured. One year later he has a pistol aimed at his head during an incident in which two officers and a civilian are shot. Four years later, an inmate murders a correctional offi cer, who is Verns friend, and a food steward. Over the course of a career spanning twenty six years, Vern was assigned to fi ve different prisons, but his time behind the stark walls of Kingston Penitentiary was his most difficult. During his assignment there, he dealt with some of the most notorious and dangerous inmates in Canadas history, such as Clifford Olson and others as bad as Paul Bernardo and Russell Williams. He was part of several hostage incidents and was taken hostage himself once. The stress of his job manifested itself in a variety of physical and emotional injuries, and he found himself forced to take time off to recover. It all culminated during a horrific time when a sex offender is taken to segregation and his victim is approximately the age of Verns own daughter. It all struck a little too close for comfort. Later, Vern worked closely with police while investigating a fellow officer who was also a friend. After retirement, Vern is contacted by the police who request more information regarding the investigation. These are his true stories of his years working behind the bars.
Author : Susan Goldenberg
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459717716
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Snatched! written by Susan Goldenberg and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2004-09-22 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1934, fifty-three-year-old beer tycoon John Sackville Labatt was kidnapped from his Lake Huron summer home and held ransom for three days. His captors, a group of ex-rumrunners, desperate in the days following prohibition and the Great Depression, were hoping for a big payday. This bizarre true crime story traces the abduction through to the trials of the abductors. From a heavily populated hideout to a case of mistaken identity, follow the story of Labatt, the first person in Canada to be kidnapped for high ransom.
Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1554880947
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Behind Bars written by Ron Brown and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2006-09-08 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel across Ontario and pay a visit to Ontario’s nearly 50 heritage jails. Built before the modern era of the OPP, they range in size from single cell lockups to massive monuments such as the Kingston Pen and the Don Jail. Although Spartan inside, many are architectural wonders on the outside and have been declared heritage buildings. A few have been converted to museums and show the harsh conditions that convicts had to endure. Behind Bars also tells of the many hilarious escapes, gruesome hangings and unusual trials which made Ontario’s old jails the centre of attention. Highlights include ghost-town jails in Silver Islet and Berens River; torture devices on display at the Penitentiary Museum in Kingston, along with the "shower" and the coffin-sized "box"; the man who was executed but didn’t die; mysterious escapes; the battle over Ontario’s smallest jail; Woodstock’s death mask; love stories gone wrong; Ontario’s first terrorist attack; the worst mass murderer; and haunted jails. "Noboby knows Ontario like Ron Brown." - CBC Radio
Author : Peter McSherry
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459707400
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book What Happened to Mickey? written by Peter McSherry and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-03-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mean streets of 1930s Depression-era Toronto comes the gripping tale of a man who became one of the nation’s most notorious criminals. Until the age of 31, Donald McDonald was only "dirty little Mickey from The Corner," the notorious intersection of Toronto’s Jarvis and Dundas Streets in a neighbourhood known in the 1930s as "Gangland." After Mickey was charged with the January 1939 murder of bookmaker Jimmy Windsor, he became a national crime figure. What followed were two murder trials, a liquor-truck hijacking, a sensational three-man escape in 1947 from Kingston Penitentiary, and a $50,000 bank robbery. According to police, as gleaned from underworld informants, Mickey was killed in the 1950s in the United States "by his own criminal associates." Author Peter McSherry presents several versions of McDonald’s demise, one of which he endorses, and tells why it happened, delivering a compelling denouement to the chronicle of a criminal readers will never forget.
Author : C. W. Michael
Publisher : Insomniac Press
ISBN 13 : 1554830923
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)
Download or read book The Criminal's Handbook: A Practical Guide to Surviving Arrest and Incarceration in Canada written by C. W. Michael and published by Insomniac Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linden MacIntyre
Publisher : Breakwater Books
ISBN 13 : 9781897174746
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Who Killed Ty Conn written by Linden MacIntyre and published by Breakwater Books. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Killed Ty Conn is the brilliant investigative work of Linden MacIntyre and Theresa Burke, the current host and producer respectively of the CBC's the fifth estate. It tells the tragic story of Ty Conn's life of crime and misfortune. Originally published by Viking Canada in 2000, the book has been updated and reissued with a new afterword from the author and a new foreword by author and criminologist Elliott Leyton. A classic in the literature of true crime, Who Killed Ty Conn portrays a man coming to terms with a life of rejection - and the social system that failed to save him.
Author : The Dundurn Group
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 9781550026603
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The Dundurn Group written by The Dundurn Group and published by Dundurn. This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sandra Cisneros
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345807197
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)
Download or read book The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1610 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Canadian Books in Print. Author and Title Index written by and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 1610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 808 pages
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Author : Constance Backhouse
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442690852
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Colour-Coded written by Constance Backhouse and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-11-20 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal system in the first half of this century, and underscores the damaging legacy of inequality that continues today. Backhouse presents detailed narratives of six court cases, each giving evidence of blatant racism created and enforced through law. The cases focus on Aboriginal, Inuit, Chinese-Canadian, and African-Canadian individuals, taking us from the criminal prosecution of traditional Aboriginal dance to the trial of members of the 'Ku Klux Klan of Kanada.' From thousands of possibilities, Backhouse has selected studies that constitute central moments in the legal history of race in Canada. Her selection also considers a wide range of legal forums, including administrative rulings by municipal councils, criminal trials before police magistrates, and criminal and civil cases heard by the highest courts in the provinces and by the Supreme Court of Canada. The extensive and detailed documentation presented here leaves no doubt that the Canadian legal system played a dominant role in creating and preserving racial discrimination. A central message of this book is that racism is deeply embedded in Canadian history despite Canada's reputation as a raceless society. Winner of the Joseph Brant Award, presented by the Ontario Historical Society
