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Interior of a plywood-clad mobile classroom from Designing Justice
Build it Better

Designing Justice + Designing Spaces builds infrastructure to end mass incarceration

Street view of old brick building former prison
Moving On

Deborah Berke Partners’ prison-to-women’s rights club conversion canceled

A perspective photo looking down the hallway of a prison where Oscar Wilde was once held
Go Wilde

Preservationists rally to save the prison where Oscar Wilde was persecuted

Jailbreak

Rikers replacement jails are announced in NYC mayor and City Council agreement

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Design Gaols

City taps Perkins Eastman to research alternatives to Rikers

Torben Eskerod)
Humane Cells

Denmark’s latest maximum security prison designed to feel less like a prison

(Bob Jagendorf/Flickr)
ACSA No

ACSA cancels controversial detention center competition

Private detention industry U.S.-Mexico border
Border Dispatches

Growing private detention industry threatens immigrants’ rights on the U.S.-Mexico border

(NADAAA / Image via Van Alen)
Justice In Design

This design team has ideas for a better, more humane jail system

Aerial view of New York looking east, with Rikers Island in the foreground. (Joseph / Flickr)
Will Take Years

Mayor de Blasio unveils plan to close Rikers Island for good

New York City pension funds divest private prisons
$48 million

New York City pension funds will no longer invest in private prisons

Prison Reform

Deep in the Florida Everglades, this former state prison hosts private military training operations

Prison Break

Mayor de Blasio backs ten-year-plan to remove prisons from Rikers Island

Bilbao (Prison) Effect?

Frank Gehry to teach “The Future of Prison” course at SCI-Arc

#NoNewYouthJail

Controversial youth jail gains preliminary approval in Seattle

Hard Time

Justice Department to end use of private prisons. Will the AIA ask architects to stop designing them?

A Budding Industry

Former California prison to become trailblazing medical marijuana farm

Crime and Punishment

Experience what solitary confinement feels like with a new virtual reality app