While today murderers from the Kw_whitestellring criminals are separated, women men of and young evil authors of the adults, in 1830 did not have you such luck. If a father could not pay its debts, its wife became and kids with him imprisoned-set Die slight criminal with violent evil authors and the religiously ill above and to the left locked to their own internal sights were mixed. A view of die conditions at old the city prison on Toronto STR comes from one report, which is shifted in the house of the meeting at the beginning of of February 1830. By a pretext of the prisoners, die was report around more food asked requested, around the spirit-ill to have treated or shifted out, soap on wash, clean clothes and secret this faulige wasn’t and overflowing. In which die first formal inquiry of its kind, William Lyon Mackenzie, became newer Torontos of first mayors probably war, a take view within the service in demand, which stood at more corner from Toronto and from king Sts. Which he found, in one book, die city is noted is called by York, a fascinating accumulation official documents, a die view of the early life of Toronto to give. It became of the late, large scholarly librarian Edith Firth, head of the Canadian manuscripts at the Toronto Public Library for 30 years compiled. Mackenzie found people 26 within draughty the stone building and only half of them was criminal, die Nine debtors was, was spirit ill three and to one a vagabond. One the debtor was locked up with its wife and five children. Everything lunatics were women, of, had whom children and went furious, when you left husband them. Kw_women locked in the cribs with straw bedlinen, two in a crib and more other through herself. All three were, thus deranged Mackenzie noted had they, which were in one hospital, where they belonged, they would have been in the straitjackets to stop to it or other damaging. Although January war, were its quarters unheated They became calmly not the use stove, because one had tried three to burn down the prison. The smell war, thus fetid, liess it strangle die visitors. ” die incessant howlings and the Aechzen” unnerving. In another cell war a passenger, who was explained there Mackenzie, soap, clothes war not changed in several the weeks and its bedlinen war not, he did not believe, for six or eight months washed. Possibly, there alarming war that young an apprentice, imprisoned by its master for the crime from above fail the worst description to show for work, in same cell as hardened criminals ” war,” noted Mackenzie. Another man war in the prison for a debt £3. although its creditor it had forgiven, had its attorney, did not weight die silence, die its fee This man to wish and others over die food dispatching and after which they it were fed, Mackenzie pushed had regarded that you are geverdoppelt daily price of transportation. It reminded die meeting, die “, although the place shank should not be a place of the comfort, it not a place of the Verhungerns to be should.” Firth not record more whether, which die legislation on recommendations Mackenzies functioned. The prison closed 1841, as a new at the front side and at Berkley covering protection facility opened war. As spirit-ill asylum to 1849 was opened used, if the service with 999 STR, now die center for inclination and mental health Queen. It would seem for some passengers and was buried in the soil, war more calmly than, locking up over it amayers@thestar.ca
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