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Select Committee Regarding Custodial Questions and Reform Institutions
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Select Committees are ad-hoc committees of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario with specific terms of reference to investigate and report on a specific issue. This committee was established April 1, 1953 and was chaired by William James Stewart. The committee recommended sweeping changes in the details of prison administration, which began to be implemented in 1955 by the Department of Reform Institutions.
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The Select Committee Regarding Custodial Questions and Reform Institutions was established in response to questions in the Legislative Assembly regarding the role of prisons as rehabilitative agencies and the general question of prison policy in the province.
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RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Sources
Sage, Richard; Weir, Aileen. Select Committees of the Assemblies of the Provinces of Upper Canada, Canada and Ontario, 1792-1991: A Checklist of Reports. Toronto: Ontario Legislative Library, 1992.
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Archivist(s):
Wayne Crockett