No bars to freedom

摘要

Can clever, inspiring and thoughtful architecture play a positive role in transforming the life of a person who, serving a long or short sentence at her majesty's pleasure, seemingly has no hope? Or is there a valid contrary view that says it's not the job of designers, project managers and consultants to make prisoners' lives easier by offering up new prisons; that this mollycoddles the feckless and feral, who deserve nothing but punitive justice for harming society?