‘A relentlessly dull world’ – the case for adding more colour to NZ’s grey prisons
- Written by Christine McCarthy, Senior Lecturer in Interior Architecture, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Interior of Auckland South Men's Prison.Getty ImagesPrisons are not colourful places. Typically, they are grey or some variation of a monochrome colour scheme. But increasingly, such a limited palette is being questioned for its impact on health and rehabilitation.
As the US journalist and broadcaster Michael Montgomery once wrote of the supermax...
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