Collection search - Bigford, E. and G. Kenehan - Interview

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Bigford, E. and G. Kenehan - Interview

Item number (ISN):

135568

Series title:

Correctional Service of Canada Oral History Project

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1980

Item number (ISN):

135568

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADA. SOLICITOR GENERAL CANADA / SOLLICITEUR GÉNÉRAL CANADA

Accession:

1989-0337

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1980

Production company:

Solicitor General, Canada

Production credit:

interviewer, Guy Surprenant

Description:

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Oral history interview by Guy Surprenant, of Ernest Bigford (joined service 1949), and G. Kenehan, correctional officers at Regional Reception Centre at Kingston Penitentiary (KP). Topics include: reasons for joining service; early salaries; hiring procedure; work routines of correctional officers (ie. uniform regulation, roll calls, type of shifts); need for vigilance towards prisoners; comparison of "impersonal" architecture of Millhaven and more "open" environment at KP; skills needed to handle prisoner disturbances; comparison of prisoner work output then and now; description of lack of prisoner amenities and benefits in 1950s (ie. no newspapers, magazines nor radios); making of home made radio crystals by prisoners. Additional topics include: role of staff association; staff-inmate softball games; killing of guard by inmate; importance of varying work routine so as not to become predictable to plotting inmates; general comprisons of old and new penal systems and inmates; administration of prisoner justice before "Warden's Court"; various humorous anecdotes concerning staff and inmates; overcrowding and homosexuality in light of 1954 riot at KP; causes of 1971 riot at KP; and brief comments on medical care of inmates. <1h 24mn>

Language:

English

Original number:

7-80~7-81

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

117251

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1989-0337/081

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

117408

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1989-0337/082

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

322447

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 9902-0072

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

74:23

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

322523

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 9902-0073

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

73:17

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

575764

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

135568-1989-0337-081-S2.wav
135568-1989-0337-082-S1.wav
135568-1989-0337-082-S2.wav

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

WAV

Duration:

85:12

Made from:

1989-0337/081
1989-0337/082

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

575765

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

135568-1989-0337-081-S2.mp3
135568-1989-0337-082-S1.mp3
135568-1989-0337-082-S2.mp3

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

MP3

Duration:

85:12

Made from:

1989-0337/081
1989-0337/082

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1004307

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 9902-0072

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1996-0209/1
1989-0337/081
1989-0337/082

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1004308

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 9902-0073

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1989-0337/081
1989-0337/082
1989-0337/076
1989-0337/075

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 9902-0072
A1 9902-0073

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD633

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of donorCopyright owner: Crown.

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