15 NoraAccording to online reports, Nora’s destination Tuesday morning had been designed to look like one of those California colleges with pale-yellow sandstone buildings topped by red tile roofs. The architect wanted to send the message that this institution’s top priority was preparing its all-male enrollment for later success.
But she’d discovered upon arrival an hour ago that the construction crew had substituted white-painted concrete for sandstone and sheets of bright crimson steel for tiles. They’d thrown a nine-foot-high chainlink fence topped by coiled razor wire around the place.
No one would mistake this federal pen for the University of California at Berkeley.
A business magazine had rated it as America’s most luxurious correctional institution. Like an inmate could kick ba
