Episode 74: Jails Nextdoor
In today’s episode of The Real State, we explore the intersection between real estate and how Jails add value to the communities that embrace them. Today’s guest is Dr. Marayca Lopez, a corrections analyst, planner, and researcher with extensive education and background as a penologist and criminologist. Marayca is an authority on correction matters with a deep understanding of correctional facility operations, and functional and architectural programming. Marayca holds a Masters in Criminal Justice from Rutgers and a masters in criminology and a doctorate in law in criminal justice and corrections from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, where she is from.
For more information on the topic see work from Dr. Lopez:
Prisons-and-the-mentally-ill-why-design-matters-2.pdf (penalreform.org)
