Top architecture firm won’t design more ICE prisons after employees revolt - Lemmygrad

>One of the largest architecture firms in the world, DLR Group, has responded to a revolt from the ranks of its own employees by swearing off any new work with ICE. Though the firm endorsed the idea of “humane design” of detention facilities, working on contract with CoreCivic to rehabilitate Diamondback Correctional Facility in Watonga, Oklahoma convinced an overwhelming number of employees that the very idea is a contradiction in terms. > >Architects and engineers throughout the firm revolted at the possibility of completing the work on Diamontback or accepting further contracts for detention facilities. According to one of them, “By the time I got to ‘This isn’t even our first detention center,’ that’s when the cold sweat hits. One of my greatest fears in life—and this is going to sound dramatic—but I don’t want to be one of the people in the village who said they didn’t know. This has turned me into one of those people. I am now actively profiting off making people disappear.” > >DLR has long worked on building prisons. In the short term, management has conceded: “We will not do work to expand the portfolio of facilities that private providers own and operate with a fiduciary interest in promoting actions that increase the use of incarceration.” Courageous DLR workers are standing by to make sure that management stays the course. (Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)