Questions follow about prisons as schools of crime and the architect's ethical duty to work for public benefit. The predictable consequence is hostile interaction rape, assault, and murder, that is said to be unofficial punishment facilitated by building design.
The walls and locks of a prison trap inmates in crowded proximity. First, the imprisonment of large numbers of major and minor offenders in the harsh environments of crowded buildings leads to allegations that architects are participants in the aggravation of criminal behavior in facilities of their design. Changes in penal policy In Canada and the United States in recent decades have posed difficult problems for architects.