CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Solitary Confinement, Suicide Watch, Small Cell
6 Apr 2018
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Feb 15/18 (cid:498)architecture as a form of punishment/moral order(cid:499) How we thought we needed to isolate, depreive, and surveillance ppl. Inmates surveillance 24/7, no interaction, only allowed to read bible, glass. Bentham(cid:495)s panopticion theory tower where ppl could see inmates but inmates unaware (cid:498)someone is always watching(cid:499) had to be on best behavior all the time cus didn(cid:495)t know if someone was. Maximum punishment, maximum surveillance without wasting resources, don(cid:495)t need guards watchtower and horizontal surveilleance suffices watching them or not. Bc of circular formation, peers facing your cell could also watch you. Lots of theievery, crime, sexworkers in bytowne area (dt core) in 1800s population boom in ottawa. Henry horsey designed and built it in 1862, closed in 1972. Capacity of 150 prisioners (60 small cells, 1x3 m) (30 large cells, 2x3 m) (6 solitary confinement units) escape. If you owed money, you worked off your debt and moved into larger cells with.
