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Lancaster County commissioners remained vague about planning the design of a new prison despite voting Wednesday to close next week on the purchase of a $3 million tract for the facility. “Not sure ...

O’BRIEN AND SUSAN. THIS OLD CASTLE WAS BUILT BACK IN 1851, SO IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE COUNTY LEADERS HAVE TAKEN ON A PROJECT OF THIS MAGNITUDE. WITH THE NEW PRISON. NOW, THIS IS THE INITIAL DRAFT ...

BARBARA BARR HAS MORE ON THE VOTE TO CHOOSE A COMPANY TO DESIGN THE NEW STATE OF THE ART FACILITY. THE THIS IS THE LAND WHERE THE NEW LANCASTER COUNTY PRISON WILL BE BUILT. 75 ACRES OF LAND. THE ...

Jodi Holmes (left) and Kara Bouchard converse at a table in the "mall" area at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham. While you’re binging on new episodes of Orange is The New Black this week, here ...

It might be the most carefully hidden building boom in American architectural history. Over the last 40 years, beginning with strict drug-sentencing laws introduced in 1973 by New York Gov. Nelson ...

A better architecture of incarceration? With incredibly high counts of people in prison in the U.S., and many returning back to jail multiple times, one designer has a proposal on how to break the ...

HOLLIDAYSBURG — The Blair County Prison Society is offering recommendations on designing a new county prison, based on the expertise of its members who have been making monthly visits for more than 25 ...

The number of prisons in the U.S. has exploded from nearly 500 in the 1970s to almost 2,000 today, becoming a source of business for the architects who design them. But some in the profession are ...

In rapidly industrializing Victorian England, rising crime levels (and public fretting over the “criminal classes”) led to a prison construction boom. Between 1842 and 1877, 90 prisons were built in ...

Question: What does it take to make architecture go viral? Answer: Design an 11-story mega-dorm in which an estimated 94% of the dormitory spaces have no access to windows, fresh air or natural light.