All Posts Tagged With: "Collins Bay Penitentiary"
Report Recommends Re-Opening Prison Farms
Our readers were loud and clear when they called last August’s closure of the prison farms at Pittsburgh and Frontenac institutions both disgraceful and undemocratic. Subsequently, there was little surprise when the fiasco was crowned Kingston’s most significant headline of 2010. While the livestock have been gone for quite some time, recommendations from a recent [...]
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Best of 2010: Dear Prison Farm Supporters
According to Kingstonist’s final poll of 2010, the Limestone City’s most defining headline of the year was the closure of our Prison Farms. We received a generous number of photos and videos from the protests, while the most significant submission came by way of a letter via our Community Soapbox. Months later, Patrick Thompson’s account [...]
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Friday Foto
It’s been a busy week for protesters in Kingston between the controversial Poker Run and the Prison Farm cattle removal. It’s incredible to see people who care so much about our city and who are willing to put themselves on the line to show it. Prison Farm protesters, we are behind you. Keep on keepin’ [...]
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Community Soapbox: Dear Prison Farm Supporters
Today is Prisoners’ Justice Day, which is a day of mourning, remembrance, advocacy and protest for those who’ve lost their lives while serving their sentences. With that in mind, yesterday’s scene involving citizens from all walks of life attempting to block the removal of the remaining livestock from the Collin’s Bay institution seems fitting. With [...]
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Weekly Poll: Kingston’s Prison Farms
Last February, the Correctional Service of Canada announced the closure of six prison farms, which included two local operations at Collins Bay and Joyceville institutions. These farms have been operating since the late 1800′s, while they’ve helped in the rehabilitation process by training inmates within the agricultural sector, and otherwise boosted their general work experience. [...]
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Friday Foto
When I was a young lad, I was briefly under the impression that Collins Bay Penitentiary was in fact Disney’s Magic Kingdom. After visiting Walt Disney World around the age of 4, I returned to the Limestone City with the knowledge that Collins Bay Pen was not a fairytale castle. I mean let’s face it, [...]
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What if Kingston…
When you think of landmarks that shape the overall image of Kingston, institutions that stand out range from Fort Henry to City Hall, and even Kingston Penitentiary. Regarding the latter, there are a total of nine federal corrections facilities in and around the city, including: Joyceville, Pittsburgh, Collins Bay, Frontenac, Millhaven and Bath. Collins Bay [...]
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Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em
I was brought up to give it my all, and never quit anything I’d started. Even so, I don’t think that my parents would be disappointed to learn that I am a quitter, and I’m damn proud of it. You see, for years I considered myself a casual or social smoker, although I soon found [...]
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