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This article was published 17/05/2021 (1221 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Stony Mountain Institution is not only Canada’s oldest penitentiary, it’s also the country’s deadliest.
The 143-year-old prison has been dubbed Murder Mountain due to the high rate of suicides, homicides and unrelenting violence behind its crumbling walls.
Life and Death Behind Bars is an ongoing series by reporter Ryan Thorpe that examines the deeply dysfunctional conditions that pervade Manitoba’s lone federal prison.
Stony Mountain Institution is Canada's oldest federal penitentiary, but also the country's deadliest
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IT HAS BEEN 59 years since the Canadian state last slipped a noose around the neck of a prisoner, and more than four decades since the gallows were formally abolished in this country, yet death continues to lurk behind the bars of Stony Mountain Institution north of Winnipeg.
Isolation practices in Canadian prisons regularly exceed limits set in international law
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Devon Sampson, a 34-year-old man diagnosed with schizophrenia, hanged himself at Stony Mountain Institution in 2013. He spent 187 consecutive days in solitary confinement prior to his death; during a previous incarceration, he spent 294 consecutive days in solitary.
The number of Indigenous inmates in prison is a problem — but Ottawa has no plan to fix it
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The number of Indigenous people being locked up in federal prisons is spiking despite overall declines in both incarceration and crime rates across the country.
Hard time in hell: Inside Stony
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Gangs are in control, inmates are armed and the threat of violence is omnipresent at Stony Mountain Institution.
Guards, inmates at Stony Mountain Institution point to unrelenting gang violence, shocking suicide rate as reasons it should close
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When construction of Stony Mountain Institution — then known as Manitoba Penitentiary — was completed in 1877, Queen Victoria was the reigning monarch of the British Empire.
Stony Mountain inmate’s repeated health complaints minimized, ultimately costing him his life
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Gertrude Lamoureux sits on the couch in her William Whyte neighbourhood home in the North End as the midday sun pierces through the living-room window. At 82 years old, she is frail and thin, but her mind is sharp. Her bony fingers grip the sides of an ornate picture frame.
Stony kitchen staff justified in refusing to work after vicious attack
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A civilian food services employee at Stony Mountain Institution was brutally assaulted by an inmate in August ― sparking a work refusal from the prison kitchen staff that led to an occupational health and safety investigation.
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