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The Don Jail is a former jail in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located to the east of the Don River, on Gerrard Street East in the Riverdale neighbourhood. It was completed in 1864, and was recently renovated to serve as the administrative wing of Bridgepoint Health, a rehabilitation hospital located adjacent to the jail. Prior to its adaptive reuse as part of a healthcare facility, the building was used as a provincial jail for remanded offenders and was officially known as the Toronto Jail. The jail originally had a capacity of 184 inmates and was separated into an east wing for the men and west wing for the women. ==History== The "Don Gaol" was built between 1858 and 1864, with a new wing being built in the 1950s. Designed by architect William Thomas in 1852,〔Hauch, Valerie. "If these limestone walls could talk". ''Toronto Star'', June 28, 2015.〕 it was constructed with a distinctive façade in the Italianate style with a pedimented central pavilion and vermiculated columns flanking the main entrance portico, and it is one of the oldest pre-Confederation structures that remains intact in Toronto. The Don Jail is the only jail to have been officially designated the Toronto Jail, yet has rarely been referred to as such outside official circles, with the facility more commonly known as the ''Don Jail'' or ''The Don''. The first King Street Gaol, second King Street Gaol and the Toronto Central Prison were all colloquially known as the Toronto Jail, and the Don Jail likely earned its unofficial name to distinguish it from these other facilities. In 1952, the jail was the subject of the first ever television news report on the CBC Television English-language network when the Boyd Gang, a notorious group of bank robbers, broke out of the facility for the second time. The news anchor was future ''Bonanza'' star, Lorne Greene.〔(Gang's second jailbreak becomes CBC's first TV news story - Television - CBC Archives )〕 An adjoining, modernist east wing was built in 1958. When the original Don Jail building ceased to be used for housing offenders in 1977, the east wing remained in operation as the Toronto Jail (retaining the ''Don Jail'' moniker).〔(Transforming the Historic Don Jail ), Bridgepoint Health〕 The east wing continued to serve as a jail until December 31, 2013 when a new facility, the Toronto South Detention Centre, was completed on the site of the former Mimico Correctional Centre.〔Infrastructure Ontario Media Release (Detention Centre Project Attracts Industry Interest ), September 9, 2008〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Don Jail」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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