By Sidney Coles, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter CAPITAL DAILY
Two metal security towers are soon going to be demolished at Greater Victoria’s William Head Institution.
Security towers, familiar in iconic movies like Escape from Alcatraz (1979) and Shawshank Redemption (1994) about prisons and famous real-life escapes have come to be familiar concepts in our collective imagination about what is typical carceral design.
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