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It seems like everyone is conscious of energy usage these days, prison designers included. Architecture firm HOK Atlanta is working to design correctional facilities that lower water and energy usage, ...

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 sure ...

O’BRIEN AND SUSAN. THIS OLD CASTLE WAS BUILT BACK IN 1851, SO IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE COUNTY LEADERS HAVE TAKEN ON A PROJECT OF THIS MAGNITUDE. WITH THE NEW PRISON. NOW, THIS IS THE INITIAL DRAFT ...

Restorative justice programs such as these attempt to rehabilitate inmates in order to lower the chances that they’ll re-offend once released from jail. But in America, maximum-security prisons are ...

It might be the most carefully hidden building boom in American architectural history. Over the last 40 years, beginning with strict drug-sentencing laws introduced in 1973 by New York Gov. Nelson ...

BARBARA BARR HAS MORE ON THE VOTE TO CHOOSE A COMPANY TO DESIGN THE NEW STATE OF THE ART FACILITY. THE THIS IS THE LAND WHERE THE NEW LANCASTER COUNTY PRISON WILL BE BUILT. 75 ACRES OF LAND. THE ...

A better architecture of incarceration? With incredibly high counts of people in prison in the U.S., and many returning back to jail multiple times, one designer has a proposal on how to break the ...

A Danish prison with the lofty aim of reducing recidivism by way of good design could act as a testing ground for U.S. activists and architects, who want to close the notorious Rikers Island and ...

Question: What does it take to make architecture go viral? Answer: Design an 11-story mega-dorm in which an estimated 94% of the dormitory spaces have no access to windows, fresh air or natural light.