Welcome to the Halfway Hotel: Reforming the carceral landscape

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dc.contributor.advisorWamble, Marken_US
dc.creatorChen, Jennifer Rayleneen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-03T18:31:27Zen_US
dc.date.available2018-12-03T18:31:27Zen_US
dc.date.issued2008en_US
dc.description.abstractIn recent decades, burgeoning prison populations, high rates of recidivism, and dysfunctional prisontowns signal a crisis in today's carceral institutions. While the extant literature describes failures of government programs and flaws in confinement philosophies, it does not fully explore the extent to which architecture fosters this crisis. Despite being the pre-eminent model of prison architecture, the panopticon has grown increasingly obsolete as variations of it proliferate in the 21st century. The Halfway Hotel draws on the contributions of these variations and is presented as a new model for a carceral facility that better accommodates a specific segment of the criminal population (non-violent criminal transients) that is not well served by existing prisons. A distributed network of carceral capsules that are integrated into the urban fabric, the Halfway Hotel avoids the stigma associated with typical prisons and builds a more constructive relationship with the city it is situated in.en_US
dc.digitization.specificationsThesis was rescanned at 24-bit color in 2020. PDF has been OCR’d and made accessible.en_US
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dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS ARCH. 2008 CHENen_US
dc.identifier.citationChen, Jennifer Raylene. "Welcome to the Halfway Hotel: Reforming the carceral landscape." (2008) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/103563">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/103563</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2717en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/103563en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjectArchitectureen_US
dc.subjectCommunication and the artsen_US
dc.titleWelcome to the Halfway Hotel: Reforming the carceral landscapeen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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thesis.degree.departmentArchitectureen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitectureen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architectureen_US
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