“It is almost like the end of an old era of doing business at the Toronto Jail, into a new type of corrections,” says superintendent Randy Denis, referencing the Don by its formal nam ...

Editor's Note: Diamond and Schmitt Architects designed the adaptation of the Don Jail in Toronto. Ventin Group is involved in its restoration. Incorrect information appeared in print on April 20 ...

The Toronto Sun has been outlawed at the Don Jail? Say it ain’t so. “Our superintendent will not even allow (the Sun) to enter the units,” the guard said. That’s pretty cruel. What’s next?

This time, they took him to the Toronto Jail—the red brick building at Broadview and Gerrard that, despite its official name, just about everyone still calls the Don. In the jail, three other ...

Overcrowded, degrading, racked with tension - the landmark Toronto (Don) Jail has long been synonymous with hard time. But a recent spasm of violence, culminating last weekend in the second ...

Few buildings in Toronto hold as much intrigue as the historic Don Jail, which closed as a prison for good in 1977 after 113 years of rampant violence, daring escapes and inhumane public executions.

When the dust finally settles on the construction at the Old Don Jail grounds, Toronto’s newest city park is going to need a name. Dozens of hopeful handles have already been put up for ...

Ventilation problems at the Don Jail may have contributed to a mould ... in an air monitoring and HVAC assessment obtained by the Toronto Sun through a Freedom of Information request.

For the third time in two months an inmate has died in suspicious circumstances at a Toronto jail. Kevon Phillip, 24, died in hospital Saturday afternoon after he was found unconscious by ...

The mother of a man beaten to death at Toronto's Don Jail after a fight over a bag of potato chips told a sentencing hearing Thursday she will forever feel guilty about her son's death. Troy ...

A Don Jail inmate suffered non-life-threatening injuries after being stabbed numerous times Monday, May 17, at the south Riverdale facility.The incident happened just before 10 a.m.The victim has only ...

A piece of Toronto’s history was uncovered Tuesday morning at the site of the old Don Jail in Riverdale. At about 11:30 a.m., work crews from Archaeological Services Inc. discovered five burial shafts ...