in 1866 and acting warden of the Kingston Penitentiary in October 1870, he continued in private business until the government of Sir John A. Macdonald named him warden in January

. “The atrocious condition in Kingston Penitentiary” under the Tory warden Henry Smith provided Bristow with another editorial subject. The penitentiary, long an institution proudly displayed to such

rounds of these establishments, the most important of which were the Kingston penitentiary and the provincial mental asylum at Toronto. At this period

November 1837, when he was sentenced to three years in the Kingston Penitentiary for assault with intent to kill. The details of this case are unknown. Sullivan fared well in prison, labouring at his

. Macdonald*, warden of Kingston Penitentiary. During the following months, plagued by failing health, he instituted reform measures balanced by a degree of economic retrenchment. He died in April 1870

, this offence marked the end of Lessard’s career as a Mercer inmate. She was convicted on 29 April 1909 of wounding and sentenced to three years in Kingston Penitentiary, where she would join Tillie

housed in Kingston Penitentiary. After Cartwright’s estate was purchased by the provincial government in 1856 the stables were renovated to house 24 female patients previously confined in the

showed signs of failing, Moylan had wanted to succeed the retiring warden of Kingston Penitentiary, Donald Aeneas MacDonell*, but the

commuted to life imprisonment. Veney displayed no emotion when told of the reprieve. On 18 May 1893 Veney was taken into Kingston Penitentiary

remained a staunch supporter of Macdonald for the next three decades; his appointment in 1872 as surgeon of the Kingston Penitentiary was undoubtedly a reward for that support

5 Aug. 1858 for this “unlucky stroke” given “in liquor” was sent down to Kingston Penitentiary for seven years. But the “Roman Line” where

. On 14 July 1911 Angelina’s sentence was commuted by the federal cabinet to life imprisonment. Eleven years later, on 30 Dec. 1922, she was granted parole from Kingston Penitentiary. From

Brown* had falsified evidence and suborned witnesses while secretary of the 1848–49 commission inquiring into abuses at the Kingston penitentiary. Stevenson prepared the committee’s majority report

Napanee to Clareview. He also contracted with Kingston Penitentiary authorities to have convicts manufacture furniture. In 1854 he and David Roblin

are held at the PAC. Canadian Penitentiary Service Museum, Arch. Section (Kingston, Ont.), Kingston Penitentiary, Inspector’s letterbook

commuted to transportation for 14 years, but the council, with Arthur’s concurrence, decided upon 7 years of hard labour in Kingston Penitentiary. William

jails. Equally progressive was his report on prisons the same month. He called for the operation of the Kingston penitentiary along the lines of the Auburn Prison in New York, instituted in 1825. Its

 Walter Crofton, the Irish prison reformer, who had rejected the rigidities of the so-called Auburn system, on which Kingston Penitentiary was based [see Hugh Christopher

encounter. Macdonald, who had always supported the cause of an old family friend, Henry Smith, the ex-warden of the Kingston penitentiary, was carried away in anger to accuse Brown as secretary of the 1848–49

penitentiary question and amnesty. A commission to investigate charges of corruption and brutality at Kingston Penitentiary was dominated by its secretary, Globe publisher George