http://gabrielcity.com Gabriel City is a community for the tens of millions of Americans directly affected by our criminal justice system. We come together to share our stories and help to shape new ones. Inmates and the formerly incarcerated, family members of those serving time, men and women under community supervision, professionals in criminal justice and corrections, and the victims of crime; we support and respect each other as we work to break the endless cycle of crime and incarceration that afflicts our nation. Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:18:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://gabrielcity.com/news-and-journalism/can-architecture-reinvent-criminal-justice.html http://gabrielcity.com/news-and-journalism/can-architecture-reinvent-criminal-justice.html#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:31:16 +0000 hcdmedia http://gabrielcity.com/?p=1086 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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