ICPA2025-PID058-Chloe Aquart and Dominique Moran

Design Principles for Prison Landscapes: Security, Biodiversity and Wellbeing

Authors

Chloe Aquart

Initiative Director, Restoring Promise, Vera Institute of Justice, United States

Chloe Aquart is the director of Vera’s Restoring Promise initiative, where she guides the development and management of all operations and administrative systems. She previously served as deputy initiative director. Before joining Vera in 2022, Chloe was the director of people-centered practices at the Center for Court Innovation (CCI), where she led a broad range of local and national initiatives, including projects aimed at reforming prosecution, increasing community-based organizational capacity to mitigate and prevent gun violence, expanding the use of alternative to incarceration and diversion programs, and steering procedural justice initiatives. Beyond the United States, Chloe managed CCI’s international development portfolio, providing training and technical assistance to global criminal justice stakeholders in more than 16 countries. Chloe holds a BS in accounting from Hunter College, City University of New York, an MA in urban affairs from Queens College, and a JD from New York Law School.

Ms Dominique Moran

Professor in Carceral Geography, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Dominique Moran is an academic researcher and specialist in the relationship between prison design and landscaping and the wellbeing of incarcerated populations and prison staff. Her work spans the design of new prisons, the longevity of older prison estates (such as Victorian-era prisons in the UK), and the beneficial effects of green spaces in prison for prisoners and staff. She has researched prisons and prison systems in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Russian Federation, Norway and Sweden, and has advised on prison design and landscaping in contexts as diverse as Colombia, the Netherlands and New Zealand. She is lead editor of 'The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Design', and has led the interdisciplinary team behind 'Design Principles for Prison Landscapes', which puts into practice cutting edge research into the benefits of nature contact in prison.

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