In today’s episode of The Real State, we explore the intersection between real estate and how Jails add value to the communities that embrace them. Today’s guest is Dr. Marayca Lopez, a corrections analyst, planner, and researcher with extensive education and background as a penologist and criminologist. Marayca is an authority on correction matters with a deep understanding of correctional facility operations, and functional and architectural programming. Marayca holds a Masters in Criminal Justice from Rutgers and a masters in criminology and a doctorate in law in criminal justice and corrections from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, where she is from.

For more information on the topic see work from Dr. Lopez:

How to build for success: prison design and infrastructure as a tool for rehabilitation - Penal Reform International

Prisons-and-the-mentally-ill-why-design-matters-2.pdf (penalreform.org)

Reformative prison design