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	Eye Weekly - Dungeon on the Don - 08.24.00
		The Don Jail, along with the Metro East and West detention centres, is designed for short-term stays as prisoners await trial.
		In 1991, Pacificador was arrested, denied bail and stuck in the Don awaiting extradition.
		Thomas George, a corrections officer at the Don for six years, says corrections officers have been leaving due to the Don's pending closure, and that the staff shortage is so severe that officers are pressured to work even when sick.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_08.24.00/news/don.html (1791 words)

	Don Jail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Don Jail is a notorious municipal jail in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
		The current Don Jail was built between 1862 and 1865 (predating Canadian Confederation by two years) with most of the current jail facilities being built in the 1950s, although a jail has stood on the site since 1858.
		The jail was the subject of the first ever television news report on the CBC Television English network when the Boyd Gang, a notorious group of bank robbers, broke out of the facility for the second time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Don_Jail (590 words)

	Damn the Don Jail. it has been condemned over and over. Tear it down now.
		A spokesperson for the union that represents jail guards at the Don also accused the provincial government of ignoring a potentially dangerous situation caused by overcrowding at the jail.
		jail "is not the greatest jail in the world" it is "certainly a clean facility," he said, noting inmates themselves do the cleaning.
		She was forced to share a one-person cell with another inmate and sleep on a thin mattress on the floor in a "shocking deprivation of her human rights," Hill said in a ruling released last week, which overturned a lower court decision denying her bail.
	www.canlaw.com /judges/don_jail.htm (4759 words)

	Hernando: Jail memo prepares officers for audit
		Jail administrators recently passed out an eight-page memo with 85 sample questions and answers that might come up during the audit.
		Jail warden Don Stewart said the list of questions and answers is a standard tool for such evaluations.
		Jails are audited by the American Correctional Association, an industry group, every three years to ensure their compliance with nationally recognized standards.
	www.sptimes.com /2006/09/25/Hernando/Jail_memo_prepares_of.shtml (618 words)

	Charlotte Observer \| 03/12/2006 \| Claimed jail visits don't match records
		The Observer analyzed about 1,100 jail visits claimed by the county's top-earning indigent defense attorneys and found more than 130 don't appear in jail records.
		Telephone conferences with jailed clients might inadvertently have been recorded as conferences at the jail, he said.
		While their system was not designed to track attorney billing, they say, it's important to carefully record who visits because jail security and the safety of inmates and their visitors depend on it.
	www.charlotte.com /mld/charlotte/news/14079058.htm (972 words)

	Eye Weekly - The benefits of local jailing - 02.17.05
		In March, 2002 the jail was sold to the Riverdale Hospital, now known as Bridgepoint Health Centre, for $2.1 million, to allow the hospital to proceed with its grandiose development plans to demolish many structures in the quadrant and construct several big new buildings.
		Closing the Don Jail may be appropriate given the poor condition it's in, but that should not happen until a new jail in the downtown has built and opened.
		It may not be popular for city council to insist that a new jail is built in the city, but the quality of this place is determined by how we treat the least powerful among us.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_02.17.05/city/citystate.html (956 words)

	'Don't jail shoplifters' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Shoplifters should not be jailed unless they commit an aggravated offence, even if they are repeat offenders, a Government body has said.
		The Government-appointed SAP recognised that the first, "no jail" option would be a "radical departure" from present practice.
		Of the rest, 27 per cent were given an absolute or conditional discharge, 22 per cent were fined, 27 per cent were put on a community sentence and the remainder were "otherwise dealt with".
	www.itn.co.uk /news/86ba0e73f3b5fc244c9bdc0021048ee9.html (298 words)

	Crime & Federalism: Does Jail Work?
		The "solutions" proposed to such a problem is often to build a larger county jail, or to rent space from another county which has an excess of jail cells and house prisoners in that other county's jail.
		Sometimes, as is presently the case in Washtenaw County, Michigan, the proposal for a new jail also includes funding for jail alternatives.
		Frustrations with the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of jail have inspired sentencing alternatives, including diversion programs, county work crews (a modern variant of the "chain gang"), "name and shame", and house arrest, and have inspired legislatures to add penalties such as forfeiture or driver's license sanctions onto a variety of offenses.
	federalism.typepad.com /crime_federalism/2005/02/does_jail_work.html (2992 words)

	When mom's behind bars: Staying out of jail is the hard part (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Lydia's Place, Uptown, was founded in 1993 by a group of county jail volunteers alarmed at what was happening to these women and their children.
		The goal of the faith-based group is to help women in jail make the transition back to the outside world and to help their children cope with a mother behind bars.
		Though no statistics are available for the county jail, about 37 percent of female offenders in Pennsylvania state correctional institutions released in 2001 returned within three years.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06128/688385-85.stm (1654 words)

	Don Killuminati \|
		"Don Killuminati" is presumably a reference to the "Illuminati," a dubious secret society allegedly begun in the 1700s which aspires to world domination.
		Next came a role opposite Janet Jackson in "Poetic Justice" But the on-screen presence of Tupac the actor and the observations of Tupac the "pavement poet" were often overshadowed by the antics of Tupac the outlaw or thug, as he referred to himself.
		The year 1993 brought: an arrest for fighting with a limo driver; a 10-day stint in jail for supposedly beating up a rapper in Michigan; and yet another arrest for shooting two off-duty police officers in Atlanta (charges were dropped).
	www.donkilluminati.com /archivedarticles.htm (19026 words)

	Treat, Don't Jail, Illegal Drug Users?
		We want to rid society of drug abuse, but what we're doing is putting more people in jail and not dealing with the drug abuse." Although the initiative hasn't officially qualified yet through the Secretary of State's Office, it already is generating heated opposition from the law enforcement community.
		Lobbyists for the state peace officers and police chiefs associations, as well as for the prison guards' union, are already criticizing the measure as a threat to public safety.
		The initiative also would not apply to anybody convicted of a misdemeanor that involved threat or physical injury such as in spousal abuse cases, anybody using a firearm while holding or under the influence of drugs and anybody who refuses drug treatment.
	www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v00.n723.a04.html (1088 words)

	Vegetarians in Paradise/ Vegan Prison Meals/Prison Food/Vegetarians in Prison
		Jail officials greeted her request for vegan food with bologna sandwiches, eggs, and oatmeal with milk.
		Fortunately for her, she was interviewed in the jail by radio station KPFK for their program Democracy Now.
		She says a vegan diet is a major concession for any prisoner because the jail is only required to provide special diets for religious or medical reasons.
	www.vegparadise.com /news33.html (1362 words)

	Society in Jail - Mises Institute
		But there is no compassion in jail, which is where anyone who resists the state — even in the smallest way — ultimately ends up.
		Hidden behind each mandate is an armed tough in jackboots and a bulletproof vest who is prepared to beat and kill to serve the state and its laws.
		All of society is not yet a jail such as you find in totalitarian societies or a society under occupation due to military conquest, but with every expansion of the state, the jailers get that much more power over all of us.
	www.mises.org /story/2107 (1589 words)

	The Norman Transcript - Moore officials don't want jail in their city (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Jail selection committee member Glenn Lewis -- the mayor of Moore -- said he believes the existing facility could be expanded if needed, but added he didn't want a detention facility built in Moore.
		Although county officials were told the jail should never exceed 85 percent capacity, Lewis said there is no state statute which specifies such a percentage.
		The majority of county voters live north of Indian Hills," he said "We shouldn't be forced to have the jail without the rest of county government.
	www.normantranscript.com /localnews/local_story_230005123 (658 words)

	ifeminists.com > editorial > Don't Jail Domestic Violence Victims (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Accordingly, a California judge has ordered her to be jailed on contempt of court charges this week.
		Britt's attorney is filing an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco on the grounds that state law permits Britt, as a domestic violence (DV) victim, to decline to testify in at least one trial with impunity; the testimony in question would constitute her first court appearance.
		No one should be put in jail for being beaten up and, then, refusing to talk about it.
	www.ifeminists.net /introduction/editorials/2005/1214.html (909 words)

	Don Jail overcrowding is explosive, OPSEU says
		Last month a provincial judge described the jail, which dates back to 1863, as an embarrassment to the Canadian judicial system; last week another judge called it a "medieval, brutal" institution.
		The controversy has reached a point where defence lawyers are now asking that clients be given special consideration in all cases that require them to serve time in the jail.
		In some cases, lawyers are asking for and getting credit on a three-to-one basis for any time their clients have served in the jail while awaiting trial.
	www.nupge.ca /news_2003/n09my03a.htm (274 words)

	JAIL INMATES DON'T JUST TAKE THINGS EASY ALL DAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		For reasons of security and deterrence of escape, pre-trial inmates and federal inmates are not permitted to work outside the jail, and felons with assaultive backgrounds should not be wished on citizens of local communities.
		Of inmates screened and found suitable for some type of work, 68 are used in internal jail trusty jobs, about 10 form work crews for daily locality assistance, and an additional 30 perform community-service on weekend work crews.
		With regard to your statement, ``Taxpayers also pay for jails,'' we are proud to state the Western Tidewater Regional Jail began operations on July 1, 1992, and has not received one cent of taxpayer money since September 1992.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/vp940724/07220239.htm (472 words)

	Sun.Star Cebu - Nalzaro: Helpless jail warden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		JAIL officials have asked the court to transfer Engilberto Durano from the Bagong Buhay Rehabilitation Center (BBRC) to the Lapu-Lapu City Jail.
		In his motion, S/Supt. Reynaldo Berdin, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) 7 assistant director, said the move is in line with their serious campaign to eliminate drug trafficking in various detention centers.
		Durano’s movement is restricted and he cannot smuggle drugs inside the jail without his contacts.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2003/02/22/oped/bobby.g..nalzaro.html (563 words)

	JS Online:
		The percentage of Wisconsin jail inmates who are fl far exceeds the percentage of fls in the general population, the latest statewide statistics show.
		And in many counties, the disparity was large, with the percentage of fl jail admissions being many times higher than the percentage of fl residents in those counties.
		The racial makeup of jail populations was raised earlier this month by the Racine chapter of the NAACP, which opposes plans to expand the Racine County Jail until more study is done of the jail population.
	www.jsonline.com /news/state/jan04/201167.asp (861 words)

	Pasco: If junk heapers don't fret jail, then what?
		HOLIDAY - Stephen J. Hummel has paid hundreds of dollars in fines and spent 10 days in the county jail, but the heap of court-declared junk is still there.
		One of the other cases involves Silvio Rosalen, the 63-year-old New Port Richey man who made headlines last year as one of the first people to go to jail under the county's revamped code enforcement system.
		She can be reached in west Pasco at 869-6244 or toll-free at 1-800-333-7505, ext.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/09/21/Pasco/If_junk_heapers_don_t.shtml (546 words)

	Visitation still suspended with SARS fears at Canada's Don Jail - Prison Talk
		The inmates of Toronto Canada's Don Jail are on hunger and meds strike still today, because visitations are still suspended 3 days after the Toronto SARS travel advisory was lifted.
		Jail administration is reluctant to lift the suspension without covering their behinds with instruction from government to do so.
		Further remark on this particular jail: it is infamous for being antiqated and inadequate.
	www.prisontalk.com /forums/showthread.php?t=14192 (1047 words)

	[PRISONACT] TORONTO: Inside the Don Jail
		Entering any of the numbered cell blocks at the Don is like walking into a madhouse from another century.
		But he has come again in the wake of a judge's decision this week to cut prison time for a man convicted of attempted murder because he'd served time in the Don jail.
		The thinly stretched staff at the Don is responsible for figuring out which prisoners require psychiatric help, who should be on medication, who needs to come to the health unit at 1:30 p.m.
	www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/2003-May/007286.html (1156 words)

	Special Report on Saddam Hussein Trial ( Nigeria, Africa & World News)
		A Nigerian con man serving time for sexual assault has been running a scam out of the Don jail in Toronto that involves recruiting unwitting women on the outside and taking advantage of lax security on the inside, Global News Toronto reported yesterday.
		Although jail rules limit inmates' calls to no more than 20 minutes, they said he spoke with them on the telephone for more than an hour on several occasions, conducting interviews and then providing job training on how to use a computer database.
		The man was convicted of sexual assault in February, 2004, and sentenced to 11 1/2 months in the Don jail.
	www.africamasterweb.com /AdSense/419RunsScamJail.html (664 words)

	Don't Go To Jail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Don't Go To Jail is a Parker Brothers dice game for two or more players inspired by Monopoly.
		The remaining three dice are blank on four sides, with the other two showing "Go," "to", or "jail" in the original version, or the policeman in the more recent Monopoly Express edition.
		If a die shows the jail icon, that die is placed aside.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Don't_Go_To_Jail (317 words)

	Marc Cooper » Blog Archive » We Jail Journalists, Don’t We?
		This is no isolated case but rather only the latest in a string of incidents in which reporters are being threatened with jail for merely doing their job — protecting the public interest.
		Putting reporters in jail and forcing them to reveal confidential sources erodes all the power of the citizenry.
		Today Reporters Without Borders is marking the fifteenth International Jailed Journalists Support Day:Reporters Without Borders dedicates its 15th annual Jailed Journalists Support Day to the two kidnapped French journalists in Iraq.
	marccooper.com /we-jail-journalists-dont-we (2057 words)

	Toronto Architectural Conservancy Globe & Mail, July 9 2005 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In place of the old jail, built in the 1950s next to the old prison, and the old Riverdale Hospital, operated by Bridgepoint, will be a bigger hospital, a second medical building for seniors or long-term care and three eight-to-12-storey condominium buildings.
		The plan to eliminate the active jail is popular -- it's the ultimate gentrification project for a neighbourhood to lose a prison.
		Nearby residents are happy that the overcrowded, notoriously brutal and disease-ridden jail will finally empty and be demolished, though the provincial government will not reveal a firm date for that to happen.
	www.torarchcons.org.cob-web.org:8888 /advocacy/riverdale/gmjuly9.html (1033 words)

	Don Jail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		It is named for the nearby Don River.
		The judge noted that the prison no longer met the minimum standards set by the United Nations.
		The Don Jail was also the site of Canada's last hangings.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Don_Jail (600 words)

	Feb 06, 2004: Union calls for independent inquiry into Don Jail T.B. Outbreak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		TORONTO — The union representing over 6,000 Ontario correctional staff is calling for an independent inquiry into a tuberculosis outbreak at the Toronto (Don) Jail.
		The unidentified inmate was in contact with hundreds of staff and inmates at the jail for a month after Ministry officials were notified that he was possibly contagious.
		Chris Crosier, a correctional officer and President of OPSEU Local 530 at the jail, said that staff are furious at being put at risk in this manner.
	www.opseu.org /news/Press2004/feb062004.htm (290 words)

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