WSU Landscape Architecture Students Redesign Prison Exercise Yard as Part of State Normalization Effort

WSU Landscape Architecture Students Redesign Prison Exercise Yard as Part of State Normalization Effort

PULLMAN, WA – Landscape architecture students at Washington State University are part of a project that could change the prison experience in Washington. Assistant Professor Dan Cronan’s assignment to students in his undergraduate studio class: redesign the exercise yard at the Washington State Penitentiary’s minimum-security unit in Walla Walla. Their designs would transform a bare-bones field into a multi-use space with greenery, walking paths…