I'm trying to do a thesis paper regarding Prison Architecture, on how space planning affects inmates and could architecture bring any effects to the prisoners.
There's renewed interest in this - check out Prof Yvonne Jewkes at U. Brighton (e.g. http://eprints.brighton.ac.uk/14869/) currently running a major comparative project on this. Also, Prof Laura Piacentini at U. Strathclyde https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/piacentinilauraprof/ onarchitecture and also carceral geographies.
Hello. From the late XVIII century onwards there are a lot of interesting texts about prison architecture: Bentham "Panopticon" Wirtings (Britain); Louis-Pierre Baltard "Architectonographie des prisons" (France); Ramon de la Sagra "Atlas Carcelario" (Spain) among others; However, I belive one of the most important works in the field is John Howard "The state of the prisons in England and Wales" Also, I recommend to you the works of Norman Johnston, specially his seminal "Forms of Constraint: A History of Prison Architecture"