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

Once crews broke into the interior of the prison, they were able to bring the fire under control and eventually extinguish it ...

In Murder on the Inside: The True Story of the Deadly Riot at Kingston Penitentiary (Biblioasis 2021), Catherine Fogarty recounts the heavy days, weeks, and months during which inmates launched a ...

Canada's most notorious prison, Kingston Penitentiary, formally closed Sept. 30. Among its more notable inmates over the years: Paul Bernardo: Convicted in 1995 in Toronto of raping and killing ...

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 ...

OTTAWA—News that Kingston Penitentiary, Canada’s oldest federal prison,and two other federal institutions are slated to close stunned — and stung — prison guards, parole officers and ...

Kingston Penitentiary, which became a prison decades before Canada became a country, was designed for “confining, isolating, punishing and stigmatizing criminals.” ...

Filming took place at the former Kingston Penitentiary, often known as Kingston Pen in Canada, for both the interior and exterior sequences depicted in the series’ enormous prison.

When the Kingston Penitentiary first opened its doors in 1835, inmates were not allowed to speak, nod or even glance at each other. It must have been quiet, then, within the prison’s ominous ...

Prisoners' advocates are calling tours at the notorious Kingston Penitentiary "a PR exercise" and say they still exclude the experiences of inmates, years after the institution reopened to the public.

Murder on the Inside: The True Story of the Deadly Riot at Kingston Penitentiary Catherine Fogarty. Biblioasis, $16.95 trade paper (312p) ISBN 978-1-77196-401-2 ...

KINGSTON, Ont. - Canada's most notorious prison will once again open its doors to the public this summer, almost three years after it formally closed. Visitors will be able to tour the historic ...