testtt Tell HDR to Stop Designing New Prisons
Formerly incarcerated women, directly impacted people, and designers from across the country are calling on HDR Inc to withdraw from all their projects designing and constructing prisons, jails, and detention centers. HDR is an architecture firm that has designed 275 jails, prisons, and detention centers in the United States and has active contracts to build a $50 million women's prison in MA and a $75 million jail in Texas where abortion has now been criminalized. The Illinois Alliance for Reentry and Justice, Families for Justice as Healing, Lioness: Justice Impacted Women's Alliance, The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, and Design as Protest have come together to issue these demands to HDR.
We can no longer allow HDR to make billions off the backs of incarcerating our people. We demand that HDR immediately:
- Pull out of all jail, prison, and detention center construction projects;
- Commit to no longer designing jails, prisons, and detention centers; and
- Commit to work with directly impacted people to design community infrastructure to help repair the harm caused by the jails and prisons HDR designed.
Organizations representing incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and directly affected people have asked HDR to meet with us to determine a path forward for #ReimaginingCommunities - not jails and prisons. Despite what HDR says, incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women have been clear there is no such thing as a trauma-informed prison. Prisons are sites of sexual violence, tear apart families and communities, and cannot be reformed or redesigned. Please support this campaign by sending our demands directly to HDR executives. Read more here: https://bit.ly/HDRNoNewPrisons