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An expert on rehabilitative prison design explains how the UK’s prisons could be much better.
About half of incarcerated women in the United States are mothers to children under age 18. Natural spaces within a prison can help maintain their mother-child bonds.
Introducing colour and light to a traditionally dark place.
Architecture can affect behaviour and the choices we make. The brief is out for a centre to replace the Don Dale facility, but word is, it’s ‘a disgrace’. We can do much better.
Innovative design could be key to improving prisoners’ chances of rehabilitation and reducing their likelihood of re-offending.
Even though mental illness is consistently associated with criminal behavior, these conditions are largely undertreated in our prison system.
In the first few weeks of 2014, private security company G4S has repeatedly had to deny reports of full-scale riots at the UK’s newest prison, HMP Oakwood, near Wolverhampton. The prison has experienced…
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Professor of Criminology, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer in Human and Carceral Geography, University of Birmingham
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Research Fellow, Designing Out Crime Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Epidemiolgy, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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Design Researcher, Designing Out Crime Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Iowa State University
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Associate Professor in Law, University of Bath
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Researcher, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Interior Architecture, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington