AIA New York urges architects to ‘stop designing harmful spaces of incarceration’

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AIA New York urges architects to ‘stop designing harmful spaces of incarceration’

Oct 6, 2020

The American Institute of Architects’ New York chapter (AIANY) is calling on architects to no longer “design unjust, cruel, or harmful spaces of incarceration within the current United States justice system, such as prisons, jails, detention centers, and police stations.”

“We instead urge our members to shift their efforts towards supporting the creation of new systems, processes, and typologies based on prison reform, alternatives to imprisonment, and restorative justice,” said a newly released statement by the AIANY board of directors.

Until more comprehensive policy changes are made on a national scale, good design alone is not enough to remove or overcome the racism inherent within the criminal justice system, the statement said. “It is time we listen to Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities that have long suffered due to unjust societal norms and outcomes.”

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Rule by the criminals, for the criminals. Criminolocracy is the new black, forget democracy.