Editing Ty Conn (section)

==History==
Tyrone Conn was born in 1967, as Ernest Bruce Hayes, to an Ontario 15-year-old mother and a father from [[Newfoundland and Labrador]]. Soon after his birth, his mother abandoned him to the care of his father, who in turn abandoned him to the care of his maternal grandparents. They placed him for adoption at the age of three.<ref name=Ruby/> He was adopted by a [[Belleville, Ontario]] psychiatrist, Dr. E. Bert Conn,<ref>Died in 2013, at the age of 80, without visitation or service, at his request. [http://www.yourlifemoments.ca/sitepages/obituary.asp?oId=711091 Obituary of Dr. E. Bert Conn]; www.yourlifemoments.ca. Retrieved 2014-10-20.</ref> and his wife. Dr. Conn's wife was described as mentally unstable. Tyrone Conn remained with Dr. Conn and his wife for eight years before being returned to the care of the local Children's Aid Society.<ref name=Bradbury/> He then spent the balance of his adolescent and teenage years in foster homes, group homes, and youth detention facilities, starting at the Brookside Training School, at the age of fourteen.<ref name=Ruby/> During his time with his adoptive parents, Conn had developed a habit of compulsive stealing, starting with food and escalating, by his teens, to cars.<ref name=Bradbury/> From the age of thirteen to his death, nineteen years later, Conn was only "legally at large" for a total of sixty-nine days.<ref>[[Mike Heffernan]], [http://theindependent.ca/2011/07/27/review-who-killed-ty-conn/ Who killed Ty Conn: A case study of failure]. ''[[The Independent (Newfoundland)|The Independent]]'', July 27, 2011. Retrieved 2014-10-26.</ref> Conn had also been "illegally at large" by escaping from a number of lower-security institutions.

In 1998, Conn was transferred to Kingston Penitentiary for acting as an [[informant]] at the [[Millhaven Institution]]. He advised security staff at Millhaven that fellow inmates were planning an escape and was therefore placed in protective custody.<ref name=Bradbury/>

Conn's escape on May 6, 1999, from inside the compound was the 26th in the history of facility. More than 50 escapees were involved in those 26 incidents. Conn employed a ladder and homemade grappling hook to scale the wall and used [[cayenne pepper]] to prevent dogs from following his scent.<ref name=Bradbury/>