Feature / Kinder World
“Establishing a humanely designed prison is a challenging task. It questions our own conceptions of crime and punishment. More so, it challenges our notion that design is for spacecraft, cars, and coffee machines.”
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21st century calls for humanely designed prisons
Does punishment necessitate frightening prisons? A discussion on Norway’s ‘Halden Prison’ known for its extraordinary approach to humane treatment of prisoners. It takes architecture and morality as one, by designing a prison that is a true social experiment succeeding in rehabilitating its prisoners.