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Breaking Barriers, Opening Doors : Integrating The Formerly Incarcerated With Community, Ruoyi Song
Breaking Barriers, Opening Doors : Integrating The Formerly Incarcerated With Community, Ruoyi Song
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We have all experienced the trauma of building new relationships from little or nothing. Some of us were able to blend in quickly, while others remain outsiders or foreigners. As a student studying interior architecture, I believe that design can influence human behavior and help to reshape the relationship between communities.
485 Plainfield St, a historical building built for ice cream production is currently owned by an organization called “Open Doors,” who provides temporary housing and skill classes for the formerly incarcerated to re-enter society. Interactions between the surrounding community and formerly incarcerated are infrequent, and due to the lack …