Theory and Practice

and the author of this report (GHI Warsaw) in order to bring together colleagues from Poland, Germany, Austria and Ukraine who work on and within the prison system in Poland.The mix of theoreticians and practitioners with various professional backgrounds lent a special quality to the workshop.The participants prepared posters, especially for the workshop, for a pop-up exhibition at the conference hall of the German Historical Institute Warsaw.Those posters offered a visual overview and thematic orientation to the fi eld of existing research.Instead of discussing the material in a chronological order, the organizers set up thematic panels.The fi rst covered the history of introspection as a religious practice and its application in Polish prisons.In his introduction, Felix Ackermann (Warsaw) offered the takeover of the Franciscan monastery at Rawicz and the creation of a new Central Penal Prison of the Pozna district in nineteenth century Greater Poland as two different forms of infrastructures provided by the state in order to introduce and run a legal system based on codifi ed penal law.Bartomiej Perlak (widnica) covered former monasteries in Lower Silesia, and particularly analyzed the history of detention in widnica/ Schweidnitz.Jacek Moczulski (Olsztyn) shared his insight into the history of the inclusion of the Catholic church of Barczewo/Wartenburg into the local prison complex, and Oleh Razyhraev (Luck) enlarged the geographical focus in his paper, which concerned prisons in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia in the interwar period.A particularly thoughtful comment was provided from Micha Godlewski (Wronki).As the informal custodian of the prison in Wronki, he shared his insights within the institution and showed high quality pictures, documenting the prison's role as a modernizing facility.A second section -on the history of penal thought and the role of work in concepts of incarceration -turned out to be a hot topic of discussion between normative approaches and empirical projects.Marcin Nowicki and Dawid Schoenwald (both of Grudzidz) analyzed the layers of architectural history of the Grudzidz/Graudenz penal facility and pointed out the long

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