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The Don Jail was a jail in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located to the east of the Don River, on Gerrard Street East in the Riverdale neighbourhood. The original building was completed in 1864 and was reopened in 2013 to serve as the administrative wing of Bridgepoint Active Healthcare, a rehabilitation hospital located adjacent to the jail.
An execution chamber, or death chamber, is a room or chamber in which capital punishment is carried out. Execution chambers are almost always inside the walls of a maximum-security prison, although not always at the same prison where the death row population is housed. Inside the chamber is the device used to carry out the death sentence.
The building was designed by architect Kivas Tully of the Ontario Department of Public Works. [4] It held 147 regular cells and 49 in the basement, to be used for punishment, and could hold 250 prisoners. [3] It was partially built by prisoners from the nearby Toronto Central Prison. [3]
The longest sitting death row inmate, Fred Singleton, is also the oldest at age 80. He was convicted in 1983 after sexually assaulting a 73-year-old woman and strangling her to death with a ...
Clearing of the land began in Goderich, Ontario in 1839 and the jail was constructed between 1839 and 1842 using stone from the Maitland River Valley and from Michigan. The octagonal jail was designed by Toronto architect Thomas Young, modelled after Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon design for prison construction, common in mid-19th century ...
Slain inmate Luis Romero, left, was decapitated and mutilated March 9, 2019, by his cellmate, Jaime Osuna, in their cell at the California State Prison at Corcoran. Osuna has been found ...
A prison cell (also known as a jail cell) is a small room in a prison or police station where a prisoner is held. Cells greatly vary by their furnishings, hygienic services, and cleanliness, both across countries and based on the level of punishment to which the prisoner being held has been sentenced.
A condemned inmate is led to his cell in San Quentin's Death Row. California is shutting down death row and transferring 471 condemned people out of the prison and into the general population at ...