By Stephen Cox
“The huge apartment" is America’s concept of the prison—a large, difficult, ostentatiously oppressive pile of rock, bristling with principles and punishments, overwhelming in dimension and the purpose to intimidate. Stephen Cox tells the tale of the yank prison—its politics, its intercourse, its violence, its lack of ability to regulate itself—and its idealization in American well known culture. This publication investigates either the preferred photographs of criminal and the realities in the back of them: difficulties of keep an eye on and self-discipline, upkeep and reform, strength and sexuality. It conveys an knowledge of the bounds of human and institutional strength, and of the symbolic and iconic traits the “Big apartment” has attained in America’s realizing of itself.
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12 Dining in the mess hall will not be cheerful. You will be seated on a stool or backless bench, jammed shoulder to shoulder with hundreds or thousands of other men lined up with mathematical rigidity, all facing one way, with guards staring back at them. The food is cheap and ugly, and sometimes disgusting, although, for better or worse, there’s usually plenty of it. You can eat all you want, in the fifteen or twenty minutes you’re given to eat. The 51 Your Life as a Convict rule is: take all you like, but don’t let anything go to waste.
25 His statement was exaggerated, but not by much. Stateville, located on a featureless prairie an hour’s drive west of Chicago, was an exercise in ideal architectural proportions. An area of sixty-four acres was staked out and enclosed by thirty-three-foot walls. 5. The area bounded by the side walls, the administration building, and the service yard was a great square, enclosing another rectangle, dominated by the cellhouses; this rectangle, in turn, was 36 How to Build a Big House centered on a circular mess hall, two hundred feet in diameter, the hub of the institution—a penologically perilous but aesthetically satisfying exercise in big art.
But the range lights on the walkway stay on. ”14 So much for your weekday schedule. On weekends, you may attend a service in the chapel. You may be marched to the inmate store or “commissary” to buy cigarettes or a box of candy with the small amounts of prison scrip you are allowed. You may be taken to the auditorium to see a movie. From the 1920s on, most prisons offer weekly film presentations. While it’s true that if trouble doesn’t start in the mess hall, it will probably start in the darkened auditorium, wardens ordinarily believe that the goodwill gesture is worth the risk.
