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Vertical Prison leaves criminals up in the air

March 16th, 2010 Posted in General, Hot Stuff, Tech News, Technology

The Vertical Prison would have inmates serve time in a wall-less prison in the sky

The idea of tailoring architecture to the requirements of a prison is by no means new - most famously the Panopticon design by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham has been the blueprint for many prisons since the late 1800s. A new Vertical Prison concept is not as draconian in its ambitions with its aim of rehabilitating prisoners by allowing them to remain a part of society and contribute to it, while using height as a wall to keep them physically separated from it...

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