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- The story of Kingston Penitentiarys rapid descent from puritanical purpose to merely punitive management.
- About the Author: Peter H. Hennessy is a retired educator - teacher of high school history and, latterly, professor of education at Queen's University in Kingston.
- 248 Pages
- History, Canada
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The story of Kingston Penitentiarys rapid descent from puritanical purpose to merely punitive management.
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The story of Kingston Penitentiarys rapid descent from puritanical purpose to merely punitive management.
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"(Hennessey) expresses the hope that this book will be a useful contribution he has done an admirable job."
"A detailed and fascinating human history of one of Kingston's most imposing landmarks."
"The author puts a human face to much of this when he relates the stories of four of the inmates."
About the Author
Peter H. Hennessy is a retired educator - teacher of high school history and, latterly, professor of education at Queen's University in Kingston. While principal of the Port Arthur Collegiate (Thunder Bay) in the 1960s, he developed the fixed idea that schools are comparable with prisons, mental institutions, and homes for the aged. They are all designed, he believes, to shape humans into semi-dependent beings for the convenience of society. That is the animating philosophy of his book.
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