It’s a bit of an old chesnut but here we go again – lock ’em up and throw away the keys. This week it seems that Act and National are convinced that humanity can’t do what architecture is so good at – incarceration. Their addition to the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill, if enacted, will mean “no prospect of ever being freed for those convicted of murder or manslaughter.” Such thinking makes architecture the ultimate punishment. (more…)
Architecture as punishment
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010It’s a bit of an old chesnut but here we go again – lock ’em up and throw away the keys. This week it seems that Act and National are convinced that humanity can’t do what architecture is so good at – incarceration. Their addition to the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill, if enacted, will mean “no prospect of ever being freed for those convicted of murder or manslaughter.” Such thinking makes architecture the ultimate punishment. (more…)
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