The focus on recovering prisoners’ voices is particularly welcome and nuances existing understandings of incarceration. Editors note: Prison Architect releases on consoles this week, and to mark the occasion were returning to our original review of the game, first published last October. Konate’s analysis of the spatial locations and architectures of prisons delivers new insights into the punitive functioning of imprisonment and the weaknesses of colonial ‘disciplinary’ regimes in Senegal. This is a rigorously researched and illuminating study of prison architecture in colonial and postcolonial Senegal and is an effective contribution to the literature on imprisonment in Africa, highlighting the architecture of repression and cultures of violence inherent in colonial prison systems. Cheikh Anta Babou, University of Pennsylvania By focusing on the built environment of prisons and inmates’ agency, Konate makes a valuable contribution to an important but neglected aspect of West Africa and Senegal’s colonial and post-colonial history. The book persuasively demonstrates the entanglement between architectural design and penal philosophy emphasizing the role of the prison as a site for the expression of state power and inmates’ resistance to it.
Dior Konate’s thoroughly documented book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive examination of the history of incarceration in Senegal from the colonial to the post-colonial eras. By providing a comprehensive history of prison architecture in Senegal, the book helps insert Africa into a more global history by offering a uniquely comparative study of colonialism, architecture, and punishment.ĭr. Finally, it discusses the legacy of colonial prisons in independent Senegal. The book also undertakes a critical assessment of inmates’ agency in reshaping the world of prisons in colonial Senegal. Second, it describes the connections between the internal layout of prison spaces and punishment to show how the design of prisons expressed the notions of punishment and reforms. First, it analyzes prison buildings and their changing architectural forms throughout the colonial period to highlight how the French used prison architecture to control Africans. Prison Architecture and Punishment in Colonial Senegal asks if these connections did exist in colonial Senegal since prisons in Africa had never been the focus of such scholarship. Workers usually vary depending on if I am remodeling or contructing,etc.For the past four decades, a rich scholarship has investigated the emergence of the prison in Europe and North America, mainly the connection between institutional architecture, techniques of social control, and mechanisms of discipline. The schedule, the needs-very well met, and staff count. The double fence really doesn't stop escapes or anything, as the only way out of the prison is the entrance, but it looks realistic The double fence area and entrance(4 sets of doors). All staff areas are zoned, and i have guards in all main facilities and paths.
#PRISON ARCHITECT LAYOUT WOMEN'S PRISON GENERATOR#
I use a very similar layout on my large and medium prisons-A generator for each sector of the prison.ĭeployment. Two generators really are not necessary for a small prison unless you have a large quantity of fridges, cookers, and metal detectors. The yard is rather small perspective wise but it has everything prisoners need including a shower and restroom area. The yard, power/water building, holding cell, and security. This is a good layout since typically prisoners in solitary come injured, and with alpha 6 the doctors automatically heal the nearby injuries. To the left of the canteen is the larger shower area, and then the infirmary surrounded by solitary cells. Hence a small shower and restroom will do in the canteen/yard. The easy trick to keeping prisoners from complaining is having what they need where ever they need it. Just to verify the 125 high risk prisoners.Ī closer look at the canteen. This prison features a double fence with walking area in between for patrols. Utilities and offices border the entrance side. Main facilities are in the center surrounded by cell blocks. Any feedback or advice will be greatly appreciated! Here is a link to a video tour, or if you would like to look at the pictures below that is fine too: It is a small size prison(for lagg's sake) with fog of war, no continuous intake. I think the only exceptions were a few dangerous weapons but they were never seen in action due to my implementation of metal detectors. The experiment generated mostly expected results, and the tricks I've used with all my older prisons work just fine on the maximum security ones and keeps them from rioting.
#PRISON ARCHITECT LAYOUT WOMEN'S PRISON FULL#
So with the new alpha out, I decided to see how a prison full of maximum security prisoners would work in one of my already finished prisons.