Plans and Illustrations of Prisons and Reformatories

This intriguing pamphlet by the American Correctional Association presents an overview of the sort of prisons and correctional facilities in use in 1922. It contains a selection of remarkable plans and illustrations, with special reference to unique or improved features. Jails are chilling artifacts as they are evidence of rot in our society. But as illustrations and plans for these old prisons show, humanity and reform were also firm considerations in American correctional culture at the time. Presented at the Fifty-Second Congress of the American Prison Association in Detroit, 1922, this work contains plans for state prisons in New York and Alabama, for single buildings at two reformatories for women, for cottages at two reformatories for boys, and tentative plans for a metropolitan jail. Content includes: A Skyscraper Jail The New Sing Sing Prison The Wingdale Prison Kilby Prison Prison Farms for Women Proposed Plans for a State Prison Proposed Plan for a Reformatory Westchester County Penitentiary and Workhouse, White Plains, N. Y. Proposed Plans of the Detroit House of Correction Reception Cottage at the Hawthorne School (for Delinquent Boys) One-Story Cottage at the Thorn Hill School (for Delinquent Boys)