Murder on the InsideMurder on the Inside

On April 14, 1971, a handful of prisoners attacked the guards at Kingston Penitentiary and seized control. The inmates held the guards hostage for four intense days. This is the story of a prison in crisis set against the backdrop of a pivotal time in history when the disenfranchised began rebelling against institutional discrimination. The Kingston rebellion was a pivotal moment in Canadian thinking about human rights. The tense prison drama chronicled in this book is more relevant today as Canada's correctional system remains mired in crisis almost fifty years later.