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curved form of Angola
Cruel and Usual

The architecture of the Louisiana State Penitentiary reflects its history of oppressive labor

“Cop City”

Despite significant pushback, a new public safety training center will move forward in Atlanta

rendering of a police training facility
Cop Academy

An expanded scope for a training facility in Chicago raises questions about how—and if—architects should engage with carceral projects

Aerial survey of Rikers Island, showing different jail buildings
Count 'Em

Here are the six design-build teams competing to build the Rikers Island replacement jails

looking out at the phoenix skyline and a stone structure; HDR inc is accused of surveilling activists who protested plans to run a highway through the city park
Covert STRATA

HDR responds to reports of surveilling clients’ opponents

Interior of an abandoned prison. New AIA regs prohibit such a design
Better Late Than Never

The AIA updates its code of ethics, prohibits members from designing torture or execution chambers

The tombs, a towering jail with no windows, against a blue sky
The Tomb Where It Happened

Manhattan’s notorious “Tombs” will close next month as part of Rikers realignment

a detention facility in a city
A Move Toward New Systems and Processes

AIANY speaks out against designing places of incarceration

A rikers replacement jail site, the tombs, in chinatown
It's The Story That Never Ends...

State judge blocks Rikers replacement tower in Manhattan

Aerial survey of Rikers Island, showing different jail buildings
Slow Your Roll

Rikers closure delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, budget cuts

design rendering of a colorful space with adults and children playing
Heard Loud and Clear

Community voices come first in reimagining of downtown Atlanta detention center

Photo of a Rikers demonstration on a sidewalk outside of a courthouse
You’ve Got Jail

Fifteen architects and designers will advise design of Rikers Replacement jails

An aerial view of Rikers Island in New York City
ULURP it, ULOVE it

NYC pushes forward with plans to convert Rikers Island into public space

A speculative schematic design diagram of a Rikers Island replacement jail tower
Moving on Up

Rikers replacement process begins as New York issues RFQs

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

Designing Justice + Designing Spaces builds infrastructure to end mass incarceration

Rikers Island as seen from the air
Jail Time

Rikers replacement plan moves forward with reduced jail tower heights

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

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