About This Book
Presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, this pamphlet attempts to develop proper, universal plans for a model jail. Arguing that each prison would have specific building requirements and characteristics, the author presents several well-established canons of architecture and building which should be followed in any jail, emphasizing humane conditions and required needs. Printed with A Departmental Plan for a Detention Home for Delinquent Women by Maxwell Hyde.
R. W. ZIMMERMAN, prison architect, Chicago