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Long-term inmates at HMP Gartree, Leicestershire (UK), are offered a chance to design their own prison this summer. Architect Will Alsop will organise a series of workshops with the aim of visualising a “creative prison”. The creative prison should emphasise rehabilitation rather than punishment.

To Alsop, the concept of a creative city as a place “where people feel engaged and involved” can also be applied to prisons.

Read more in The Guardian.

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