Placial Justice: Restoring Rehabilitation and Correctional Legitimacy Through Architectural Design
@article{StJohn2020PlacialJR, title={Placial Justice: Restoring Rehabilitation and Correctional Legitimacy Through Architectural Design}, author={Victor J. St. John}, journal={SAGE Open}, year={2020}, volume={10} }
Efforts to reduce the correction population have taken many forms across the United States, with the redesign of correctional edifices being met with mixed support from stakeholders. Building from the advances of the new-generation facility design, this piece outlines how the “next” generation of facility design can serve as one of many strategies to reduce the United States’s heavy reliance on the carceral system. Specifically, the redesign of facilities should include considerations of…
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