"Design can immediately and practically reduce the number of people in custody"

Architects who want a more equitable prison system in the US should focus on designing spaces that can help reduce mass incarceration, write Lori Coppenrath and Marayca Lopez-Ferrer.

Mass incarceration is the US justice system's primary problem. The United States is home to 4 per cent of the world's population, but 16 per cent of its incarcerated population. The disproportion of those two numbers illustrates what the sociologist David Garland was after when he first coined the term for mass incarceration's precedent...