Plans and Illustrations of Prisons and Reformatories, by Hastings H. Hart, LL.D
by Hastings H. Hart
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Hart, Hastings H. (Hastings Hornell), 1851-1932
- Title
- Plans and Illustrations of Prisons and Reformatories
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare
- Subject
- Reformatories -- United States
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 48809
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48809
- Release Date
- April 27, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Plans and Illustrations of Prisons and Reformatories
- 2.Table of Contents
- 3.List of Illustrations
- 4.Introduction
- 5.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
- 6.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
- 7.The Wingdale Prison — Architectural Precedents — Application to Wingdale
- 8.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
- 9.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
- 10.Proposed Plans for a State Prison
- 11.Proposed Plan for a Reformatory
- 12.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
- 13.Proposed Plans of the Detroit House of Correction — Correlation of Divisions — Ten Cell Blocks — A Modern Factory — Prison Walls Obviated
- 14.Reception Cottage at the Hawthorne School (for Delinquent Boys)
- 15.One-Story Cottage at the Thorn Hill School (for Delinquent Boys)
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