# I Am Made of Scars: The Legacy of Ontario's Child Prisons

An episode of [CANADALAND](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/721048994), 26 Oct 2026, 34 min.

Audio: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/630ceae33fe37400122828c6/e/6adeaac051584c74d345a95c/media.mp3

It’s our annual crowdfunding month! You can become a supporter starting for just $5/month by going to canadaland.com/join — we’ll even throw in a free tote bag. And be sure to stay tuned for some big announcements over the next few weeks. ——— Over 20,000 kids went through Ontario's "training schools" system. But really they weren't so much schools as prisons for children ages 8-16. The first of what grew to nineteen of these institutions opened in 1925. They all shut down by 1984. Daniel Brown was one of the last boys to be declared a ward of the Juvenile Delinquents Act and to serve time in the training schools system and today we tell his story. NB Parts of this story originally appeared in a Toronto Life story about Daniel. Host: Jesse Brown Credits: Liz Beatty (Reporter), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editing, Sound Design, and Mixing), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher) Fact checking by Julian Abraham Additional music by Audio Network and Tristan Capacchione Image courtesy of Daniel Brown More information: • Settlement Reached in Ontario Training Schools Class Action Lawsuit — Ontario • Locked Away — Toronto Life Sponsors: Shopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at https://shopify.ca oxio: Head over to https://canadaland.oxio.ca and use code CANADALAND for your first month free! BetterHelp: Visit https://BetterHelp.com/canadaland today to get 10% off your first month. Can’t get enough Canadaland? Follow @Canadaland_Podcasts on Instagram for clips, announcements, explainers and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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