Excerpt from Plans and Illustrations of Prisons and Reformatories The cell houses are circular, resembling a gas tank with a conical roof. They are a practical execution of the Panopticon proposed by Jeremy Bentham in the year 1787, a plan of which will be found in Punishment and Reformation, by Dr. Frederick Howard Wines, page 144. The interior wall of each cell is of glass and a central tower enables the guard to keep every prisoner under Observation every moment, day and night. Each cell is well lighted by an exterior ...
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Excerpt from Plans and Illustrations of Prisons and Reformatories The cell houses are circular, resembling a gas tank with a conical roof. They are a practical execution of the Panopticon proposed by Jeremy Bentham in the year 1787, a plan of which will be found in Punishment and Reformation, by Dr. Frederick Howard Wines, page 144. The interior wall of each cell is of glass and a central tower enables the guard to keep every prisoner under Observation every moment, day and night. Each cell is well lighted by an exterior window. An elaborate system of ventilation was installed, but on a recent visit the writer discovered that the cell houses ventilate themselves through the outer windows and the sky light, and the fans were not in use. It is doubtful whether a system of perpetual espionage will find favor with prison administrators, but the experi ment is an interesting one. Special efforts were made to obtain the plans of the new Illinois Penitentiary for this publication, but were unsuccessful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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