A model "Home" (maximizing the architecture in juvenile correctional facilities)

Abstract

As the desire for greater incarceration becomes increasingly apparent, our nation's correctional facilities are being used at unacceptable levels with conditions of overcrowding becoming unbearable. The quality of life has deteriorated as the offenders' human rights are vastly ignored. This project is intended to explore the correlation which is inherent between architecture and existing correctional ideologies. This thesis directs its concern to where crime begins-- at the juvenile level. The major investigation is to develop a quality architecture that creates and establishes an attitude of how architecture and architects can maximize in a positive way the potential and personal growth of the juvenile delinquents.