La Santé, a prison in Paris

La Santé prison, built in Paris between 1861 and 1867, is a unique, homogeneous and impressive work of architecture. At the cutting edge of reflections on imprisonment, it was at the time the ultimate “modern prison”, the stone embodiment of 19th-century penitentiary obsessions such as the panopticon, more rational and humane forms of imprisonment, and the redemption of its inmates.