What blooms: The jailhouse, inside out
Special Issue: The Beautiful Prison
ISBN: 978-1-78350-967-6, eISBN: 978-1-78350-966-9
Publication date: 17 June 2014
Abstract
This essay takes the cross-bayou, architectural face-off between the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) and Houston’s Harris County Jail (HCJ) as an occasion to imagine the jail reconstructed as a site for restorative social-justice programs – programs that invite the community inside as does the open-enrollment university. The essay exercises a concretely located yet utopian imagination that refigures jail and university as kindred and symbiotic institutions. It envisions, story by story, how HCJ might be repurposed as “Un-UHD”: a center for the social justice activities serving the nation’s fourth largest city.
Citation
Jackson, C. (2014), "What blooms: The jailhouse, inside out", Special Issue: The Beautiful Prison (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 64), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 87-96. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-433720140000064006
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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