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Mothers behind bars nurture relationships with visitors in this unusual prison garden

  • Written by Julie Stevens, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Iowa State University
The design called for plants and play spaces – big improvements over brick and razor wire.Iowa State University student design team, CC BY-ND

Leaves are rustling. You can hear the sound of children kicking a ball, plinking the keys of a toy xylophone. People are laughing and talking.

Are you picturing a prison? My colleagues and I did –...

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