Book Review: Handbook of Correctional Institutions, Design, and Construction:Federal Prison Industries, Inc., Washington, D. C., 1950 311 pages. $6.00 Paper; $7.50 Buckram; $10.00 Leather. (Copies may be secured by writing Federal Prison Industries, Inc., H.O.L.C. Bldg., 1st and Indiana Ave., Washington, D.C.)
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Book ReviewHandbook of Correctional Institutions, Design, and ConstructionFederal Prison Industries, Inc., Washington, D. C., 1950 311 pages. $6.00 Paper; $7.50 Buckram; $10.00 Leather. (Copies may be secured by writing Federal Prison Industries, Inc., H.O.L.C. Bldg., 1st and Indiana Ave., Washington, D.C.) SAGE Publications, Inc.1950DOI: 10.1177/003288555003000205 N.K.Teeters This volume is a landmark in penal literature. For this aloxue, James V. Bennett and the Federal Bureau of Prisons deserves signal credit. It is the first book of its kind to emerge iroin the brains and engineering skill of those concerned with recent, ~efiective and modern housing of prisoners, including juvenile delinquents. It is well known in penology that the designers of the Auburn prison in New York (William Brittain and John Cray) and our own John IIaviland who built Cherry Hill and the N'ew ~br8'ey prison, as well as many Pennsylvania county jails, indel- lbly placed their brand of prison architecture on the nation. ill"> Haviland got his ideas in Europe. But the bastille motif With its turrets, embrasures, portcullises, long, dark winding stairways, and the like, designed to strike terror in the hearts Of crIminals and law-abiding citizens alike, stultified prison con- ° struetion for over a century. The