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    The Door: My Twenty-Six Years Working Inside Canada's Prisons
    The Door: My Twenty-Six Years Working Inside Canada's Prisons
    The Door: My Twenty-Six Years Working Inside Canada's Prisons
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    The Door: My Twenty-Six Years Working Inside Canada's Prisons

    By Vern Thibedeau

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    For Canadian corrections officer Vern Thibedeau, it all began at "Disney World"-or at least the penitentiary that ironically carried that nickname.

     

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookside Press
    Release dateOct 5, 2022
    ISBN9781998784295
    The Door: My Twenty-Six Years Working Inside Canada's Prisons
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    Vern Thibedeau

    For twenty-six years Vern Thibedeau worked in five different facilities within the Canadian Correctional System, including Kingston Penitentiary in Ontario. Once retired, Vern and his wife lived, and travelled in an R.V. for five years or so. They now live back in Kingston and just enjoy life.

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