Talk:HM Prison Liverpool

Panopticon reference

I've removed a reference to the jail being built on principles of the Panopticon. The reference cited (no.1 / capitalpunishmentuk) seems confused - it refers to a 'radial' panopticon, when panopticons were based on a circular / domed structure (with a single viewing point in the centre, surrounded by a single, circular wall of cells. All of which could be fully observed from the centre).

The radial design is drawn from US prisons - particularly the Philadelphia / separate system (as first embodied in Pentonville in the UK).

Excuse my scatty referencing - but Michael Ignatieff (1978) A Just Measure of Pain, p.182: "By 1830, the reports of the Boston Prison Discipline Society and the travelogues of English visitors like Captain Basil hall had made English authorities familiar with the Haviland design for the Philadelphia penitentiary. Instead of ranging the cells around the periphery of a circular tower, as at Millbank, Haviland devised the cell block, three tiers of cells ranged around three sides of a huge open corridor. These blocks radiated from a central inspection point, offering clear lines of sight throughout the building. The design for Pentonville drew heavily on the Philadelphia model."

See also Keith Soothill (2007) 'Prison histories and competing audiences, 1776-1966,' in Y Jewkes (ed.) Handbook on Prisons, p.37: 'The architecture of Pentonville was heavily based on the design for the Philadelphia penitentiary, where the cell blocks radiated from a central inspection point, offering clear lines of observation throughout the building.' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.32.240.38 (talk) 11:08, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

MR JAKE WINTERS

I am Mrs Juliana Erasmus from South Africa and finance to Mr Jake Winters who is being detained by you.

Please I urgently need to get in contact with your social workers iro of Mr Winters. I am very concerned about him as he is suffering of high blood pressure as well as diabetes. He is on chronic medication to treat his ailments and I would like to know whether he is receiving medical care.

I am feeling devastated as he was on his way to South Africa to spend Christmas with me after I have lost a daughter to covid. Please, he is innocent and I know he needs a lawyer to stand up for him but I am unemployed and unable to come up with the necessary funds to do any upfront payment to any UK Lawyer and I therefore kindly request that you will allow his son Mr Joshua Winters to take his cell phone to him to enable him to transfer the needed funds from his phone to his son. Please I beg you.

I know that such action will be allowed in South Africa as its every persons human right to have access to a lawyer, even prisoners.

Kindly hear my plight, I can not afford to lose another loved one..

Best regards

Mrs Juliana Erasmus 102.66.112.18 (talk) 14:50, 17 March 2022 (UTC)