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How Prison Architecture Can Transform Inmates' Lives
http://www.psmag.com/politics-...s-crime-design-82968
How Architects can Improve Justice facilities
(Deanna) Van Buren believes that a criminal justice culture that has not shifted its focus from punitive treatment to rehabilitation is a significant obstacle. Van Buren is looking for alternative architectural typologies to support rehabilitation, such as peacemaking centers, restorative justice centers, and re-entry campuses. Her method involves working directly with the people living and working within justice facilities to explore the idea of restorative justice as a process of acknowledging crimes committed and reacquainting oneself with normative behavior.
Van Buren has been working with Barb Toews, a Lancaster, Pa.–based social worker and restorative justice practitioner, to explore how social justice concepts may play out inside of jails. Specifically, the team has looked at how design can draw rehabilitative elements of therapy closer to the incarcerated individual’s daily life.