Prisons.

After the brainstorm discussions for design studies, we were given a task to create a poster continuing one of the topics from the brainstorm. Since I initially looked into the Power of Context chapter of The Tipping Point I decided to carry that through. I was interested by the social context of prisons and how and if there is anything we can do to change or improve the current system and how prisoners react to current prison environments. I looked a little into service design and how this could be applied to creating a better system for prisons rehibilitation and to try and prevent so many re-offences after release.
Luckily there was a programme on tv whilst I was finishing off my poster about "america's toughest prisons". It was about a very tough prsion for young offenders, the prison used very strict boot camp style techniques, literally taunting and forcing physical activity on the prisoners until they were physically sick. Although this seems extreame you wouldnt want to go back to that and it might prevent re-offending. The prison was trying to teach the young offenders discipline and team work, if one of them slips up at all, they all pay and are punished equally. Although intimidating people in this way is so strict and one man said that prison makes you a "bigger stronger convict", it just teaches you to get more violent.