Two inmates believed to be dangerous escaped from a Canadian prison in Saskatchewan Friday night and are still on the run, police said. Jesse Dion Favel, 20, and Noah James Lemaigre-Elliott, 19 ...

Kingston Penitentiary, which became a prison decades before Canada became a country, was designed for “confining, isolating, punishing and stigmatizing criminals.” April 19, 2012 4 min read ...

Kingston Fire and Rescue crews were dispatched to the penitentiary early Saturday morning to deal with the blaze but were ...

During its 178-year-long history, most Canadians knew Kingston Penitentiary only by reputation. Often referred to as Canada’s Alcatraz, the Ontario maximum-security prison housed around 400 of ...

Kingston Penitentiary, Rules and Regulations for Inmates, 1836. Inmates "must not exchange a word with one another under any pretence whatever." Inmates "must not exchange looks, wink, laugh, nod ...

The historic Kingston Penitentiary has been added to the Canada Public Land Bank. The plan will support 1,770 housing units under the federal plan to build four million homes.

On July 11, 2025, Matthew Scoville, an inmate from Saskatchewan Penitentiary, died while in our custody. At the time of death, the inmate was 42 years old ...

Canada has sanctioned six more Russians, including Vadim Kalinin, head of the prison in the settlement of Kharp, where Alexey Navalny died, according to data on the website of the Canadian Foreign ...

Fogarty’s well-researched and moving debut examines a 1971 Canadian prison riot and the conditions that caused it. Located in Kingston, Ontario, Kingston Penitentiary opened in 1835, making it ...