The Westchester County Penitentiary is a simple form of the type of
a plan whose various parts are brought together by the use of the
connecting corridor to provide indoor circulation throughout the group.
This system of design is well known in connection with other types of
building, but seems to be new to prison architecture. Indeed, such an
arrangement would have only been tolerated in the present attitude
toward the offender. Modern penology demands, first of all, adequate
possibilities for segregation and classification. These are of vital
importance in the administration of the modern penal institution,
and cannot be properly had in the huge cell block. To achieve this
classification and segregation, the connecting corridor offers the
greatest possibilities.