Phantom of Blood Alley (2009)
“It was a new prison, built to a revolutionary design based on the beliefs of Jeremy Hobholt, one of the great thinkers of the age. Unlike the old prisons like Gallowgates and Highheath, with their crowded communal cells, this model prison was a so-called panoptican.
It was octagonal in shape, three storeys in height and with a central viewing platform from which the warders could observe the inmates. But the most revolutionary aspect of Whitegate was that these inmates were kept in solitary con...finement, in individual cells, and forbidden to talk at all times. Even in the exercise yard, they were made to wear hoods so the inmates could not fraternize with, or even see, their fellow prisoners.
Hobholt firmly believed that this allowed each prisoner to reflect on their crimes and aided their reformation. That, however, was not what I’d heard. Rumour abounded of inmates of Whitegate being driven mad by the rigidly enforced isolation and silence of the place, and being transferred to the lunatic asylum at Watermeadows Lane.MoreLess
It was octagonal in shape, three storeys in height and with a central viewing platform from which the warders could observe the inmates. But the most revolutionary aspect of Whitegate was that these inmates were kept in solitary con...finement, in individual cells, and forbidden to talk at all times. Even in the exercise yard, they were made to wear hoods so the inmates could not fraternize with, or even see, their fellow prisoners.
Hobholt firmly believed that this allowed each prisoner to reflect on their crimes and aided their reformation. That, however, was not what I’d heard. Rumour abounded of inmates of Whitegate being driven mad by the rigidly enforced isolation and silence of the place, and being transferred to the lunatic asylum at Watermeadows Lane.MoreLess
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