This detention centre for minors in Marseille offers an alternative to oppressive prison architecture through its muted material palette of natural stone and board-marked concrete. More about Combas uses natural stone to build "warm and robust" juvenile detention facility in Marseille
An embracing chair designed to soothe anxiety and a lamp that anyone can be taught to manufacture are among items of furniture designed for prisons by students from Norway's University of Bergen. More about University of Bergen students design furniture for prison inmates
Forensic Architecture has created an interactive model of a notorious torture prison in Syria, using the eye- and ear-witness accounts of survivors (+ movie). More about Forensic Architecture forms digital reconstruction of Syrian "architectural instrument of torture"
New York firm Deborah Berke Partners has won a competition to transform a correctional facility into a permanent home for the girls' and women's rights movement in the city. More about Deborah Berke to turn former New York prison into women's rights headquarters
Opinion: controversial computer game Prison Architect offers a grim lesson for real-world architects, whose good intentions often count for nothing, says Will Wiles. More about "Prison Architect is a graveyard for the utopian spirit where noble ambitions go to die"
Karl Lenton of UK company Safe Innovations has designed these mobile therapy spaces to give prisoners better and more comfortable access to healthcare. More about Karl Lenton designs egg-shaped movable therapy pods for prisons
New York 2015: Brooklyn industrial design student Kai Lin has created a contemporary furniture set for jail cells in juvenile detention centres in the US. More about US student Kai Lin designs furniture for youth prison cells
Concrete and stone buildings with sculpted green rooftops are arranged around generous courtyards at this prison complex near Tarragona, Spain, by AiB Estudi d'Arquitectes and Estudi PSP Arquitectura (+ slideshow). More about Mas d’Enric Penitentiary by AiB and PSP
A nineteenth century prison in the Netherlands has been converted into a boutique hotel where guests sleep in the former cells. More about Het Arresthuis hotel in a former prison by Van der Valk hotels
Slideshow: in our second project this week by Madrid studio Exit Architects, the designers teamed up with architect Eduardo Delgado Orusco to create this civic and cultural centre inside a former prison in Palencia, Spain. More about Civic Centre in Palencia by Exit Architects and Eduardo Delgado Orusco
Danish architects CF Møller have won a competition to build a new state prison on the island of Falster in Denmark. More about Danish State Prison by CF Møller
Architects Guillermo Hevia García, José Tomás Rodríguez and Nicolás Urzúa have won a competition to reuse a former prison in Talca, Chile, as a public space and arena. More about Espacio Talca by Guillermo Hevia García, José Tomás Rodríguez and Nicolás Urzúa