How to build a good prison There’s no definitive manual for designing decent prisons, but it’s clear what elements make for a better, more humane design. The first factor to consider is location.

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The radical theory of the new prison is that inmates who live in a normal environment adjust more quickly to normal life upon release. It begins with architecture \u2014 including light, sound ...

Design and infrastructural issues are especially significant now given the city’s plan to shutter Rikers by 2027, and to build a jail in each borough except Staten Island, a project the City ...

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The design of the prison itself is still in flux: it may turn out to be multiple buildings, or a single building with multiple wings. Either way, Deputy Commissioner of Corrections, ...

Beginning in the 1980s, the US has seen an ever more massive prison boom and a never-ending demand for more prison construction. With the prison and jail population now approaching 2.3 million and ...

"The context that we talk about prison design in is in the context of mass incarceration, and Alabama is participating in that," said Sperry of ADPSR, a Berkley, California-based advocacy group ...

Lancaster County commissioners remained vague about planning the design of a new prison despite voting Wednesday to close next week on the purchase of a $3 million tract for the facility. “Not ...

More than two-thirds of San Quentin's prison population has been infected with COVID-19. And overcrowding isn't to blame.