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Volume 72, Issue 105,
Monday, March 5, 2007
News Prison design focus of talk DAILY COUGAR NEWS STAFF The Rice Design Alliance Grant will present "The Carceral City: The Architecture of Prisons in Texas" at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, as well as an exhibition of photographs and architectural drawings running through March 24. "There are a half million people under some form of restraint in the Texas prison system, not including federal, municipal and county jails and half-way houses," College of Architecture Director of Graduate Studies Thomas Colbert, who will be presenting the lecture, said. "What kind of environments should we be creating for these people?" The lecture and accompanying exhibition will examine
the oldest prison in Texas as well as older and contemporary designs for
incarceration.
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