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Letter I

           

House of Corrections (H.O.C.)

-          Planning to build

-          Letter writers Brother “contrived” (1) something similar

-          Named; “Inspection House” (1)

-          Wants to provide ideas to the person establishing the house

-          “within a space not too large to be covered or commanded by buildings, a number of persons are meant to be kept under inspection.” (2)

-          “no matter how different, or even opposite the purpose; whether it be that of punishing the incorrigible, guarding the insane, reforming the vicious, confining the suspected, employing the idle, maintaining the helpless, curing the sick, instructing the willing in any branch of industry, or training the rising race in the path of education: in a word whether it be applied to the purposes of perpetual prisons in the room of death, or prisons for confinement before trial, or penitentiary-houses, or houses of correction, or work-houses, or manufactories, or mad-houses, or hospitals, or schools.” (2)

      This quote sums up why we need these spaces and what they can be used for.

-          “Such are those which have suggested the idea of Penitentiary-houses: in which the objects of safe-custody, confinements, solitude, forced labour and instruction, were all of them to be kept in view If all these objects can be accomplished together, of course with at least equal certainty and facility may any lesser number of them.” (4)

      Gives insight into why you need all these things in order to accomplish a successful prison.

Letter II

Plan for the Inspection House

-          Cells

        -    apartments in which prisoners inhabit, divided from one another so each person is, “secluded from all communication with another” (5)

-    Partitions

        -    will extend as many feet as necessary.

-    Inspectors Lodge

        -    apartment where the Inspector cohabits

-   Intermediate or Annular Area

        -  vacant space for the prisoners

-    Passage

        - “about the width of the cell from the outside of the building to the Lodge.” (6)

-     Window

       - “large enough, not only to light the Cell, but, through the Cell, to afford light enough to the correspondent part of the Lodge.” (6)

-    Grating

     - “inner circumference is formed by iron grating, so light as not to screen any part of the Cell from the Inspector’s view.” (6)

-          Warning Bells

   -  An alarming system to ensure safety