The Political Dynamics of Justice Reform in The U.S.
The Political Dynamics of Justice Reform in The U.S.
The Political Dynamics of Justice Reform in The U.S.
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VI. Prison <strong>Reform</strong>:<br />
Reimag<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g Prison<br />
<strong>The</strong> Marshall Project<br />
Nonpr<strong>of</strong>it Journalism About Crim<strong>in</strong>al <strong>Justice</strong><br />
21 December 2017<br />
Prison As College Campus. Prison As Wellness Center.<br />
Prison As Monastery.<br />
“I’ve personally spent only one night <strong>in</strong> jail,” Frank Gehry confessed. “I didn’t like it very<br />
much.” Gehry, 88, who has been described as our greatest liv<strong>in</strong>g architect (and, by an<br />
admir<strong>in</strong>g pro-cannabis website, as a Very Important Pothead), said he got his only taste<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>carceration when he was busted for possession many years ago. Last Friday <strong>in</strong><br />
New Haven, that night beh<strong>in</strong>d bars was a k<strong>in</strong>d <strong>of</strong> credential. An <strong>in</strong>vited audience <strong>of</strong><br />
architects and students, corrections <strong>of</strong>ficials and campaigners for crim<strong>in</strong>al justice reform<br />
assembled at the Yale School <strong>of</strong> Architecture for the f<strong>in</strong>ale <strong>of</strong> Gehry’s semester-long<br />
“studio” on architecture and mass <strong>in</strong>carceration. A dozen students would present their<br />
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