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Podcast: Podcast By Proxy: Canadian True Crime
Episode: Kingston Penitentiary Riot; ONTARIO Part 3
Description: Tune in this week to get Part 3 of the Kingston Penitentiary Riot series!  Historians note that the worst prison riot occurred 52 years ago in Attica, New York, when 1200 inmates gained control of the Attica Correctional Facility and took 42 staff members hostage.  The end result was 43 people dead, 10 of them being correctional officers.  However, on April 14, 1971 just 5 months prior to the Attica, New York riot, Kingston, Ontario saw its own prison riot at Kingston Penitentiary. While the Kingston Pen riot saw less death than in Attica, it also very much embodied chaos, death and was a viole...