What a world without prisons could look like | Deanna Van Buren

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🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Deanna Van Buren designs restorative justice centers that, instead of taking the punitive approach used by a system focused on mass incarceration, treat crime as a breach of relationships and justice as a process where all stakeholders come together to repair that breach. With help and ideas from incarcerated men and women, Van Buren is creating dynamic spaces that provide safe venues for dialogue and reconciliation; employment and job training; and social services to help keep people from entering the justice system in the first place. "Imagine a world without prisons," Van Buren says. "And join me in creating all the things that we could build instead."

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features activist, architect, and artist Deanna Van Buren, recorded live at TED Women 2017.
0:10.5	A lot of people call me a justice architect, but I don't design prisons.
0:19.9	I don't design jails. I don't design detention centers, and I don't design prisons. I don't design jails.
0:22.1	I don't design detention centers,
0:24.0	and I don't even design courthouses.
0:26.9	All the same, I get a call every week saying,
0:32.1	okay, but you design better prisons, right?
0:35.4	You know, like those pretty ones they're building in Europe.
0:38.3	And I always pause.
0:41.7	And I invite them,
0:43.8	and I invite you today,
0:45.9	to imagine a world without prisons.
0:49.3	What does that justice feel and look like?
0:53.9	What do we need to build to get there?
0:58.0	I'd like to show you some ideas today of things that we're building.
1:02.0	I'm going to start with an early prototype.
1:05.0	This I built when I was five.
1:07.0	I call it the healing hut.
1:09.0	And I built it after I got sent home from school
1:12.3	from punching this kid in the face
1:14.5	because he called me the N-word, okay?
1:16.4	He deserved it.
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