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Index
Plans and Illustrations of Prisons and Reformatories
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
A Skyscraper Jail
Proposed Design for a Metropolitan Jail (A Possible Solution of the Cook County Jail Problem in Chicago)
An Official Report
Dean Kirchwey’s Recommendations
Evils to be Remedied
Why Not a Skyscraper?
Security
Employment and Recreation
Present Difficulties Overcome
The New Sing Sing Prison
The Clinic Building at the New Sing Sing Prison
A New Policy
The Clinic Building
Psychiatric Classification in Prison
Individualization
A Prison Planner’s Code
A Distributing Prison
Study of the Prisoner
The Registration Building
The Temporary Detention Building (“No. 5”)
The Clinical Laboratory
A Training School for Nurses
The Wingdale Prison
Architectural Precedents
Application to Wingdale
Kilby Prison—The New Alabama Penitentiary Near Montgomery
Preliminary Note
Notes on the Design and Construction of Kilby Prison, Near Montgomery, Alabama
Main Cell House
Detention Cell House
Kitchen and Mess Hall
Hospital
Economy
Outside Cells
Prison Farms for Women
State Farm for Women at Niantic, Connecticut—Reception Building
The Caroline Bayard Wittpenn Cottage at the New Jersey State Reformatory for Women, Clinton, New Jersey
Proposed Plans for a State Prison
Proposed Plan for a Reformatory
Westchester County Penitentiary and Workhouse, White Plains, N. Y.
The General Problem
Hospital and Reception Building
Observation Cell Block
Mess Hall
The Connecting Corridor
Three Dominant Ideas
The Outside Cell
Light, Heat, and Ventilation
Continental Construction
Ventilation by Cell Doors
Proposed Plans of the Detroit House of Correction
Correlation of Divisions
Ten Cell Blocks
A Modern Factory
Prison Walls Obviated
Reception Cottage at the Hawthorne School (for Delinquent Boys)
One-Story Cottage at the Thorn Hill School (for Delinquent Boys)
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