Originally, though, the panopticon was what the British political philosopher Jeremy Bentham proposed as a new model of ...

Traditional prison architecture—mostly built before 1945 ... but the consolation provided by natural beauty is God’s design and man’s birthright. In legacy institutions like Louisiana ...

The Haarlem Koepelgevangenis ("dome prison") is just one ... believed this "simple idea in architecture" could reform morals and improve health. He thought the design would work in other ...

Norristown is home to the castle-like Montgomery County Prison. Pamela W. Reilly reflects on the historic structure in ...

Lancaster County commissioners are set to vote Wednesday on whether to set aside $10 million in county funds to pay for ...

Kier has formally signed the main construction contract on a new £684m prison scheme in Scotland that will replace the ...

It was this design Mason had built at Okiato. The forgotten influence of the New South Wales Colonial Architect's office on New Zealand's earliest prison architecture surely relates in part to the ...

Apparently, this hypocoristic name was used colloquially to describe the prison located on Łódzka Street in Kalisz. It was built in 1844 according to the design of the eminent architect of the time, ...