Structures
Structures: Perspectives
The buildings where fates, freedoms, and justice are decided sit at the center of our image of the justice system. What form should they take? How should they work?
Siting Rikers’ Replacements
The city's plans call for new borough jails to replace those at Rikers. A set of drawings examines land uses in the boroughs' civic centers to consider: Can New Yorkers accept jails as neighbors?
Retrofit for Fairness
The city oversees an experiment: Can new signage and instructions improve experiences in New York’s busiest criminal courthouse?
Due Process and the Enclosure of Justice
What is gained, and what is lost, when justice takes place outside public view?
The People's Court
New spaces for justice replace punishment with problem solving and hierarchy with community.
A Jail to End All Jails
Mayor de Blasio promises to close the Rikers Island jail complex in ten years. But what comes next? A look at the island’s history reveals clues — and cautions.
What Jail Can't Do
Frank Greene and Kenneth Ricci discuss the changing paradigms of half a century of justice architecture and what we should ask — and expect — from courts and jails.