With his firm, buildings he was involved in constructing included the town's first Canadian Northern Railway station, a post office, the Bank of Montreal, Merchants Bank and Bank of Commercee buildings, the Hudson's Bay Company store, the first provincial penitentiary building, and the residences of city notables Richard Secord, Frank Oliver and Edward Ainslie Braithwaite.
(They also provoked a backlash in the form of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and its leader, Anthony Comstock. He argued that censoring the amusements of the young would save money on penitentiary-building later).
But before we can go from our workshop space in the penitentiary school building to the "club", a big auditorium on the ground floor of the old monastery building that is part of the penitentiary, we have to put the finishing touches to the films and the participants have to fill in the OneMinutesJr competition forms.
Illinois's first state penitentiary (the building is now gone) opened there in 1833; the prison housed Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War.
In Port-au-Prince the cathedral and the National Palace were both heavily damaged, as were the United Nations headquarters, national penitentiary, and parliament building.
Across the street from the prison, Joanna Fletcher, 54, watched the hands of a clock, mounted high in the arch of the penitentiary's main building, as they moved slowly from one minute to the next.
In addition to replacing the 280 cells in the old penitentiary, the new buildings will allow the county to convert two buildings that are now housing inmates into permanent locations for drug treatment and educational programming.
Previous waves of penal reform were accompanied by new styles of prisons, from the 19th century's first penitentiaries (an innovative building type at the time), to the "big house" cellblocks of the Prohibition era, to the warehouses and dayrooms of recent decades.
His appeals abandoned, Timothy J. McVeigh today awaited the move from his cell on death row at the federal penitentiary here to the building where he will be put to death on Monday for bombing the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, where 168 people died in 1995.
Hoover also furthered the long-held Quaker interest in prison reform, alleviating prison overcrowding by building new penitentiaries and work camps, expanding educational opportunities for prisoners, and increasing the number of prisoners placed on parole.
He was largely responsible for a parliamentary statute of 1779 that authorized the building of two penitentiary houses where, by means of solitary confinement, supervised labour, and religious instruction, the reform of prisoners might be attempted.
