Introduction: African prisons and history -- Penal politics in colonial Senegal -- Building the colonial prison in Senegal (1817-1950) -- Prison location : controlling men and enforcing labor -- Prison architecture and penal experience -- The architecture of repression : prison buildings and designs in Senegal (1833-1946) -- Prison architecture and patterns of surveillance, life, and discipline -- Redesigning the colonial prison : African responses to imprisonment -- Post-colonial prisons in Senegal -- Architectural makeover : the legacy of colonial prisons in Senegal -- Appendix: Prison experiences and narratives : the power of words.
