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Architects’ Ethics Panel to Consider Boycott of Execution Chambers and Prison Design
Loaded on April 1, 2016
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2016, page 54
Filed under:
Advocacy,
Prison Reform,
Conditions of Confinement.
Location:
United States of America.
by David Reutter
An advocacy group composed of architects, building designers and planners is hailing a decision by the National Ethics Council of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to reconsider a proposal to prohibit its members from designing “execution chambers and spaces intended for torture or cruel, inhuman, or ...
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