Sentence examples for prison architecture from inspiring English sources

Advocates of supersized jails claim that prison architecture has moved on from monolithic Victorian warehouses.

Mr. DeVore does not dwell on the school's design failures -- the prison architecture of slit windows and acres of linoleum despite promises of a more homey environment.

One of the earliest examples of modern prison architecture, the county jail was designed by Robert Mills, then 26 years old and the country's first professionally trained architect.

Although few survive intact, dungeons were a fixture of 19th-century prisons, said Norman Johnston, a professor emeritus at Arcadia University in Pennsylvania and the author of "Forms of Constraint: A History of Prison Architecture" (University of Illinois Press, 2000).

Scandinavia leads the nicer prisons vanguard, but Dr Elizabeth Grant, a prison architecture expert at the University of Adelaide, says Australia has several "world-breaking" prisons.

He floated the idea of selling off dank, old, inner-city prisons such as Pentonville, using the proceeds to build prisons whose architecture would favour the purpose of rehabilitation and learning and where drug-taking would be easier to control.

"It's part of a body of work looking at council flats and architecture as prison – basically, architecture as control.

I read the articles he wrote from his cell for broadsheet newspapers, high-brow magazines and specialist periodicals on art, architecture, or prison life.

"The style of architecture of a prison," states the 1826 Encyclopaedia Londinensis, "offers an effectual method of exciting the imagination to a most desirable point of abhorrence".

During two-month project artists will respond to the work of Wilde, the architecture of the prison and themes of imprisonment and separation.

The school has institutional architecture that brings prisons to mind, but Ms. Battle has warmed it with colorful paint and brighter light.