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Vera Institute for Justice and MASS Design Group Reimagine Prisons

March 4, 2019
Alex Klimoski
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In June 2016, the Vera Institute for Justice, a nonprofit national research and policy organization, launched an 18-month initiative called “Reimagining Prison” during an event at the Eastern State Penitentiary—the birthplace of solitary confinement in the United States. The goal of the campaign was to seek answers, said Nicolas Turner, the Institute’s president and director: “What are we trying to achieve when we put people in prison? What are the values that underlie the use of incarceration?” The project unfolded in the form of symposia, research, publications, and podcasts. As part of the program, Vera partnered with MASS Design Group to place prison architecture in historical context, and to imagine how future facilities could operate differently and what they might look like.

Released last year, the resulting report, on design strategies (a companion to Vera’s Reimagining Prison), is a scholarly quest to “understand how we got to where we are now,” says Michael Murphy of MASS. “We wanted to show how, in the past, prison policy and architecture have aligned, and to reveal what has gone awry, particularly with the acceleration of mass incarceration.” The MASS report for Vera charts the evolution of carceral typologies, develops a framework for evaluating the current landscape of prisons, and culminates with a vision for a “reimagined system” in which the mission and objectives of the current model are shifted from a retributive, punitive, and sequestering approach to a restorative and therapeutic one—one which many experts believe could greatly reduce the high recidivism rate and help former inmates succeed in reentering their communities.

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