Posts Tagged ‘Architecture’
Can Architecture Reinvent Criminal Justice?
Take a look at this New York Times article about prison architecture. The article sites the Leoben prison in Austria as an example of a prison that uses architecture to create a space that is meant to foster rehabilitation. The sun drenched rooms in Leoben sound very different from the “warehouse” style prisons we are familiar with in the United States. The designer of Leoben states: “The more normal a life you give them here, the less necessary it is to resocialize them when they leave.”
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