Now does it make sense to you?
'The architecture is the control'
Many of the more than 400 inmates spend as much as 23 hours a day alone in 7-by-12-foot concrete cells. Meals are slid through small holes in the doors. Bed is a concrete slab dressed with a thin mattress and blankets.
A single window about 42 inches high and 4 inches wide allows some natural light but is made so prisoners cannot see beyond the building. Cells have unmovable stools and desks made of concrete. Solid walls prevent prisoners from seeing other cells or having direct contact with other inmates.
"The architecture of the building is the control," Hood said.
"You're designing it so the inmates can't see the sky. Intentionally. You're putting up wires so helicopters can't land."
Inmates have little contact outside of guards and prison staff. They must wear leg irons, handcuffs and stomach chains when taken outside their cells -- and be escorted by guards. A recreation hour is allowed in an outdoor cage slightly larger than the prison cells. Inside the cage, only the sky is visible.
"You're passing hundreds, hundreds of cameras as metal doors are sliding open and closed," Hood said.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/25/us/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-supermax-prison/
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