The Palgrave Handbook Of Prison Design

797 Pages·2023·15.904 MB·English

by  Dominique Moran, Yvonne Jewkes, Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill, Victor St. John

The Palgrave Handbook
of Prison Design
Edited by
Dominique Moran · Yvonne Jewkes
Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill · Victor St. John
Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
Series Editors
Ben Crewe, Institute of Criminology, University of
Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Yvonne Jewkes, Social & Policy Sciences, University of
Bath, Bath, UK
Thomas Ugelvik, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Oslo,
Norway
This is a unique and innovative series, the first of its kind dedicated
entirely to prison scholarship. At a historical point in which the prison
population has reached an all-time high, the series seeks to analyse
the form, nature and consequences of incarceration and related forms
of punishment. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology provides an
important forum for burgeoning prison research across the world.
Series Advisory Board
Anna Eriksson (Monash University)
Andrew M. Jefferson (DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture)
Shadd Maruna (Rutgers University)
Jonathon Simon (Berkeley Law, University of California)
Michael Welch (Rutgers University)
· ·
Dominique Moran Yvonne Jewkes
·
Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill Victor St. John
Editors
The Palgrave
Handbook of Prison
Design
Editors
Dominique Moran Yvonne Jewkes
School Geography, Earth Social & Policy Sciences
and Environmental Sciences University of Bath
University of Birmingham Bath, Somerset, UK
Birmingham, UK
Victor St. John
Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill Saint Louis University
Arizona State University St Louis, MO, USA
Phoenix, AZ, USA
ISSN 2753-0604 ISSN 2753-0612 (electronic)
Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
ISBN 978-3-031-11971-2 ISBN 978-3-031-11972-9 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11972-9
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Praise for The Palgrave Handbook of
Prison Design
“Asking the question ‘what works in prison design’ and often in response
chronicling what doesn’t, this comprehensive volume provides a detailed
and nuanced review of the progression of penal architecture over the
last two hundred years culminating in recent designs centred around
a utopian vision of the rehabilitative institution. With a mirage of
individual perspectives carefully selected and combined into this wide-
ranging handbook, it is set to become a key reference source for
researchers, architects and custodial jurisdictions going forward.”
— Alex Newman, RAIA B.Arch BA Arch, Director, Xsquared Architects,
Australia
“Prison design is a moral maze, plagued by questions such as whether
such a thing as a good prison is even possible. Yvonne Jewkes and
Dominique Moran, Britain’s pre-eminent prison scholars team up with
experts from the US, Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill and Victor St John to
edit a compendium of cross-disciplinary knowledge that explores these
questions with rigour and insight. Historically, prison design has been
selective about the critical theories that it has attempted to incorporate
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so that even well-intentioned strategies have meant that human misery is
baked into the architecture of one of the least adaptable types of building.
By bringing together contributions from a much broader range of knowl-
edge than ever before a new, more intellectually agile approach emerges
that offers practical methods of inquiry rather than solutions. Like all
good design, the further one takes this inquisitive approach, the more
sophisticated and responsive the outcome will be. Throughout, the ques-
tion of whether designing an inherently harmful space in a better way is
a good or bad thing is at the fore. Whatever the reader’s conclusion, they
should not reach it before reading this book.”
— Roland Karthaus, Associate Professor in Architecture, University of East
London, UK
“The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Design offers a broad and varied set of
perspectives on the design of detention environments. It includes many
chapters that need to be read by anyone who is a designer of prisons,
or who hires and sets policy for such facilities. Chapters by important
scholars address difficulties encountered in historical and current prison
design (such as That Time We Tried to Build the Perfect Prison, What
works least, Architecture and Design of the Communist and Post-Communist
Prison) as well as thoughtful essays on positive approaches (The Creative
Prison Revisited, Designing a Rehabilitative Prison Environment, Guidelines
for Designing Health-Promoting Correctional Environments). The various
sections of this volume consider why detention facilities are the way
they are, how they can be evaluated and studied, and how they can
be made better. They include primary data from case studies as well as
literature reviews and conceptual models. Issues critical to environment
and behavior in total institutions are addressed, such as the importance
of access to nature for people in restrictive settings. Since incarceration
is often the end product of the way western legal and justice systems
operate, an important chapter also considers an alternative approach of
rehabilitative justice. Questions about designing for youth and consid-
erations of gender in detention facilities have been too little considered
in the design-research literature, so the attention given to these here is
very welcome. Youth facility issues are the focus of three chapters, and
another discusses “gender inconsiderations of carceral space.” This book
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offers the kind of thoughtful discussion about difficult issues that goes
beyond simple prescriptions for spatial layout and features, in ways that
should be important to anyone who is interested in how we incarcerate
people—which is really all of us as citizen-owners of these facilities.”
— Richard Wener, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Environmental
Psychology, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, USA and
author of The Environmental Psychology of Prisons and Jails
Contents
1 Introduction 1
Yvonne Jewkes, Dominique Moran,
Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill, and Victor St. John
Part I The History and Philosophy of Custodial Design
2 That Time We Tried to Build the Perfect Prison:
Learning from Episodes Across U.S. Prison History 21
Ashley T. Rubin
3 Defining the Mechanisms of Design:
An Interdisciplinary Approach 51
Melissa Nadel
4 Custodial Design: Collective Methods 79
Kevin Bradley and Rohan Lulham
5 What Works Least Worst? A Personal Account of Two
New Prison Design Projects 105
Yvonne Jewkes
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6 The Creative Prison Revisited 129
Saul Hewish
7 Prison Design: Between Pragmatic Engagement
and the Dream of Decarceration 159
Roger Paez with Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill
8 Prison Architecture in Chile: A Critical Realist
Analysis of Prison Architectural Outputs Through
the Lens of Organised Hypocrisy Theory 191
Alberto Urrutia-Moldes and Fionn Stevenson
9 The Architecture and Design of the Communist
and Post-Communist Prison in Europe 227
Judith Pallot and Olga Zeveleva
Part II Determining the “Effectiveness” of Custodial
Design
10 Challenges and Solutions in Establishing the Impact
of Custodial Design 263
Melissa Nadel
11 Evaluating Correctional Environments: A Critical
Psychosociospatial Approach 283
Todd Levon Brown
12 Towards a Dignified Design: O-T-I, S-L-S,
and Experience in Carceral Space 313
Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill
13 A Model for the Design of Youth Custodial Facilities:
Key Characteristics to Promote Effective Treatment 339
Matthew Dwyer and Sanne Oostermeijer
14 Designing a Rehabilitative Prison Environment 385
Jennifer Galouzis, Andrew Day, Stuart Ross, and Diana Johns