Murder on the Inside Virtual Book Launch

When:
April 14, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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You’re invited to the virtual book launch for Murder on the Inside: The True Story of the Deadly Riot at Kingston Penitentiary by Catherine Fogarty! We’ll be streaming live on Wednesday, April 14 at 7 PM EST, the 50th anniversary of the riot. You can watch on Facebook Live or on YouTube. We’re partnering with Novel Idea Bookstore in Kingston, ON for the launch.

Stay tuned for more details!

 

ABOUT MURDER ON THE INSIDE:

“You have taken our civil rights—we want our human rights.”

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, making headlines around the world and drawing international attention to the dehumanizing realities of incarceration when several inmates appeared on camera and described the overcrowding, inadequate rehabilitation programs, harsh punishment, and extreme isolation they endured. As negotiations between the leaders of the inmates and a citizens’ committee of journalists and lawyers entered the a third day, tensions inside the prison erupted when gangs of angry, disenfranchised convicts turned their rage towards the weakest prisoners. As heavily armed soldiers prepared to regain control of the prison through a full military assault, the inmates finally gave up the fight.

Murder on the Inside tells 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. Like the uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York that occurred later the same year, leaving twenty-nine inmates and ten guards dead and marking a watershed moment for civil rights in America, the Kingston rebellion was a pivotal moment in Canadian thinking about human rights. Until now, few have known the story—yet the tense prison drama chronicled in this book is more relevant today than ever, as Canada’s correctional system remains mired in crisis almost fifty years later.

 

ABOUT CATHERINE FOGARTY:

Catherine Fogarty is a storyteller. She is the founder and president of Big Coat Media, with offices in Toronto, Los Angeles, Vancouver, and North Carolina. An accomplished television producer, writer and director, Catherine has produced award-winning lifestyle, reality and documentary series for both Canadian and American networks.

Catherine is the executive producer of the Gemini nominated series Love It or List It. In addition to that franchise, Catherine has produced several other lifestyle and documentary series including Animal Magnetism (W Network), My Parents’ House (HGTV), and Paranormal Home Inspectors (Investigative Discovery Canada). Catherine also produced and directed I Don’t Have Time for This, an intimate documentary about young women with breast cancer.

Originally trained as a social worker, Catherine studied deviance and criminology. She worked with numerous at-risk populations including street youth, people with AIDS, abused women, and social services.

 

Pick up your copy of Murder on the Inside from Novel Idea Bookstore or your local bookshop, or you can pre-order from our website.