| PAGE | |
| [Introduction.] By Hastings H. Hart, LL.D. | [7] |
| [A Skyscraper Jail.] A Possible Solution of the Cook County Jail Problem. By Hastings H. Hart | [9] |
| [The New Sing Sing Prison.] | [16] |
| The Clinic Building at the New Sing Sing Prison. By Walter B. James, M.D. | [16] |
| Psychiatric Classification in Prison. By Lewis F. Pilcher, New York State Architect | [18] |
| [The Wingdale Prison.] By Lewis F. Pilcher, New York State Architect | [27] |
| [Kilby Prison.] | |
| Preliminary Note. By Hastings H. Hart | [30] |
| Notes on the Design and Construction of Kilby Prison. By Martin J. Lide, Engineer and Architect | [31] |
| [Prison Farms for Women.] By Hastings H. Hart | [38] |
| State Farm for Women at Niantic, Connecticut | [38] |
| The Caroline Bayard Wittpenn Cottage at the New Jersey State Reformatory for Women | [42] |
| [Proposed Plans for a State Prison.] By Alfred Hopkins, Architect | [45] |
| [Proposed Plan for a Reformatory.] By Alfred Hopkins, Architect | [46] |
| [Westchester County Penitentiary and Workhouse, White Plains, N. Y.] By Alfred Hopkins, Architect | [47] |
| [Proposed Plans of the Detroit House of Correction.] By Albert Kahn, Architect | [55] |
| [Reception Cottage at the Hawthorne School (for Delinquent Boys).] By Hastings H. Hart | [59] |
| [One-Story Cottage at the Thorn Hill School (for Delinquent Boys).] By Hastings H. Hart | [61] |
List of Illustrations
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| Chapel of New Sing Sing Prison. | [Frontispiece] |
| A Skyscraper Jail. | |
| A Plan for a Metropolitan Jail | [9] |
| Administration Floor Plan | [11] |
| Typical Cell Floor Plan | [13] |
| Hospital and Clinics—Floor Plan | [15] |
| The New Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York. | |
| Psychiatric Building | [17] |
| Typical Detail of Construction of All Buildings | [19] |
| Outside Cell Building—North Elevation | [20] |
| Outside Cell Building—First Floor Plan | [21] |
| Detention Building—First Floor Plan | [22] |
| Detention Building—South Elevation | [23] |
| Mess Hall and Kitchen Building—Basement | [24] |
| Mess Hall and Kitchen Building—First Floor | [25] |
| Wingdale Prison, Wingdale, New York. | |
| General View | [28] |
| Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Alabama. | |
| Front Elevation | [30] |
| General Plan | [32] |
| Administration Building—Floor Plan | [33] |
| Cell Blocks—Floor Plan | [35] |
| Laundry, Bath and Detention Building—Floor Plans | [36] |
| Connecticut State Farm for Women, Niantic, Connecticut. | |
| Perspective of Reception Building | [38] |
| Reception Building—First Floor Plan | [39] |
| Reception Building—Second Floor Plan | [40] |
| Reception Building—Basement Plan | [41] |
| Caroline Bayard Wittpenn Maternity Cottage, State Reformatory for Women, Clinton, New Jersey. | |
| South Elevation | [42] |
| Maternity Cottage—First Floor Plan | [43] |
| Maternity Cottage—Second Floor Plan | [44] |
| Proposed State Prison. | |
| Photograph | [45] |
| Proposed State Prison—Plan | [45] |
| Proposed Reformatory Plan. | [46] |
| Westchester County, New York, Penitentiary and Workhouse. | |
| General View from Approach | [47] |
| Administration Building—Entrance Side | [48] |
| Administration Building—First and Second Floor Plans | [49] |
| Typical Floor Plans of Cell Blocks | [50] |
| Elevations of Corridor and Cell | [51] |
| Ground Plans of Corridors and Cells | [51] |
| Recreation Corridor | [52] |
| Stair Hall—Administration Building | [53] |
| View of Mess Hall from Corridor | [53] |
| Cell Block Corridor | [54] |
| Typical Cell | [54] |
| Detroit House of Correction. | |
| First Floor Plan | [56] |
| Second Floor Plan | [57] |
| Third Floor Plan | [58] |
| Hawthorne School (For Delinquent Boys), Hawthorne, N. Y. | |
| Reception Cottage | [59] |
| Reception Cottage—First Floor Plan | [60] |
| Reception Cottage—Second Floor Plan | [60] |
| Thorn Hill School (for Delinquent Boys), Warrendale, Pennsylvania. | |
| One-story Cottage—Floor Plan | [61] |
| One-story Cottage. Photograph | [62] |
Introduction
Prison building has been for the most part suspended during the past seven years. State prisons have been under construction at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania; Sing Sing, New York; Statesville, near Joliet, Illinois; and Montgomery, Alabama. Westchester County, New York, has built and Detroit, Michigan, has begun a prison for short term misdemeanants. New York City and the District of Columbia have partially completed reformatories for young men. New reformatories for women have been established in Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Most of them have adopted cottage plans similar to those of industrial schools for delinquent girls. All of them are in process of development. Most of them have erected from one to three new buildings and are making use of old farmhouses as temporary cottages.
Comparatively few new county jails have been built. Probably the most notable one built in the past seven years is the Hamilton County Jail in Cincinnati, which is reported as a modern and model jail, located in the top of the Court House, like the jails in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Oakland, California, and Raleigh, North Carolina. Plans for a new county jail system at Chicago for Cook County are being worked out by a local committee which has retained Dr. George W. Kirchwey, of New York, as expert adviser.