Professor Yvonne Jewkes, a criminologist who studies prison life, shares her personal experience of confinement after her partner left her trapped in a renovation project just before the Covid lockdown. She discusses her work on prison design and her new home in Bath, reflecting on the concept of home and its restorative power.
Yvonne Jewkes understands confinement. A professor of criminology at the University of Bath, she has for some three decades investigated the rehabilitative potential and harsh reality of prison life. According to the National Audit Office, plans for prison capacity are “insufficient to meet future demand”, with a projected shortage of some 12,400 places by the end of 2027.
Eighteen months after the separation, her ex asks to meet up in a Cheltenham tea shop. Over Earl Grey and lemon drizzle cake, he announces that he is moving back into the street — to live with the woman in the house opposite. Jewkes knows little about her. An Architecture of Hope highlights the fragility of security. Leaving her home was less a house move than a history jettisoned. She sold a lot of the furniture and objects in the Cheltenham house to the buyers.
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