Collection search - Peeling, J.M. - Interview

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Peeling, J.M. - Interview

Item number (ISN):

135575

Series title:

Correctional Service of Canada Oral History Project

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1980

Item number (ISN):

135575

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:

1 of 1

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 Joan Peeling (joined service 1960), correctional officer at Prison for Women, Kingston. Peeling discusses: reasons for joining service; hiring procedure; corientation and early work routine; meal time routine; dispensing of medication; early training courses; types of weapons/confienment tools used by guards; weapon and self defense training; prisoner assaults on staff; opening of new women's prison wing; start of Temporary Absence program by superintendent Isabella McNiel; working outside programs; Elizabeth Fry Society; introduction of drugs with women working outside; discontinuance of internal body searches; home brews; violent nature of current inmates; and witnessing killing of inmate by another, deaths by overdose, and attempted hangings. Additional topics include: practical jokes played by staff; observations of increasing violence among prisoner population; increase in guard beatings; native Canadian inmates; Peeling's preference for old timers; comparison of discipline of old and new days; penny-pinching budgeting of old days; staff uniform changes; and anecdotes about various inmates known. <59mn>

Language:

English

Original number:

7-86

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

117260

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1989-0337/087

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

367011

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2002-01-0004

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

57:27

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

575778

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

135575-1989-0337-087-S1.wav
135575-1989-0337-087-S2.wav

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

WAV

Duration:

62:33

Made from:

1989-0337/087

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

575779

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

135575-1989-0337-087-S1.mp3
135575-1989-0337-087-S2.mp3

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

MP3

Duration:

62:33

Made from:

1989-0337/087

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1001208

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2002-01-0004

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1989-0337/087

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2002-01-0004

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD633

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Copyright status:

Under copyright until 2031.

Copyright owner:

Crown copyright.

Reproduction access:

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

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