File:Souvenir views of the city of Kingston Ontario, Canada, and the Thousand Islands, River St. Lawrence (1901) (14595608869).jpg

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Title: Souvenir views of the city of Kingston Ontario, Canada, and the Thousand Islands, River St. Lawrence
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Publisher: Kingston : Published for R. Uglow & Co.
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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THE PROVINCIAL PENITENTIARY Kingston is the Seat of the Provincial Penitentiary, at present guarding the public from nearly 600 convicts. Its site, on a gentle slope, whose shore iswashed by the clear blue waters of Lake Ontario, is very beautiful and picturesque. This penal institution is complete in every respect. The central domecntains three tiers of cells radiating from the centre. There are Protestant and Catholic Chapels, library, an asylum for criminal lunatics and a building de-voted to solitary cells The convicts are employed at every kind of labor, from that of the farmer to the manufacturer. For the benefit of the institution abakery, laundry, boot and electric light establishments are conducted. A binder twine manufactory plant employs a large number of prisoners. This is theonly Penitentiary in Canada where women convicts are incarcerated. Dr. Piatt, late of Picton, Ont., is warden and he has under him a staff of about sixty em-ployees. Some of the most noted men in the

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