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Architecture: "Behind Bars ... Sort Of"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Behind Bars ... Sort Of By JIM LEWIS Published: June 10, 2009 NY Times Pictures at this URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/magazine/14prisons-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine Go ahead and say it; everyone does. Certainly I did. Here?s a striking building, perched on a slope outside the small Austrian town of Leoben ? a sleek structure made of glass, wood and concrete, stately but agile, sure in its rhythms and proportions: each part bears an obvious relationship to the whole. In the daytime, the corridors and rooms are flooded with sunshine. At night, the whole structure glows from within. A markedly well-made building, and what is it? A prison. Everybody says this, or something like it: I guess crime does pay, after all. Or, That?s bigger than my apartment...continue to full post

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