The Kingston Penitentiary stands idle and empty; an unlikely marker of time, no longer a guardian of secrets but now a custodian of history. There’s a nervousness in the air now— an uncertainty so pervading that even the cool summer breeze of Lake Ontario cannot calm it. Change is coming. As Canada’s oldest and most infamous prison, Kingston Penitentiary, originally called the “Provincial Penitentiary of the Province of Upper Canada,” or the “Provincial Penitentiary,” sits on 8.6 hectares
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