Building Type Basics: Justice Facilities

"Turner Construction, DLR Group, AECOM, and Stantec top BD+C's rankings of the nation's largest architecture, engineering, and construction firms for justice facility"

"AIA Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct to prohibit the design of spaces intended for execution, torture and prolonged solitary confinement."

"To confine, secure, rehabilitate or punish: the prison has several, sometimes contradictory aims, but however humane its approach, penal architecture is essentially cruel"

"Architects weigh in on whether we can really rehabilitate prisoners and reduce recidivism through “more humane” prisons and jails"

Published in the Journal of Criminal Justice