DLR集团因参与ICE拘留中心项目遭强烈反对

Magazine Awards Jobs Events Guide Showroom School Shows Courses Competitions Follow: Architecture Interiors Design Technology Series Features Interviews Opinion News Lookbooks Talks Videos Podcasts About Comments Newsletters Preferences Submit a story Advertise Privacy notice Contact Dezeen Magazine dezeen-logo dezeen-logo Next story clear Search –> –> Follow: Awards Jobs Events Guide Showroom School Shows Courses Competitions Series Interviews Opinion Talks Videos Newsletters Magazine Architecture Interiors Design Technology –> Search results: Read more: Posts: –> Refine your search: Cats DLR Group faces backlash over work on ICE detention centre Share: Ellen Eberhardt | 17 March 2026 Leave a comment American architecture studio DLR Group has been linked to the conversion of an Oklahoma prison into an ICE detention centre, leading to employee backlash and a commitment to stop work on ICE-associated facilities.
According to reporting in the American magazine Mother Jones , in February 2026, DLR Group employees discovered the studio had worked as a subcontractor for the Tennessee company CoreCivic to convert the Diamondback Correctional Facility in Watonga, Oklahoma, into a detention centre for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Former DLR Group communications employee Andrew Osborne, who has now left the studio, learned of the DLR Group’s involvement with the facility’s design, despite internal messaging to the contrary.
“I learned through publicly verifiable sources that DLR Group, despite telling me that they haven’t, had continued to work with CoreCivic, and that CoreCivic has continued to lease their facilities to ICE,” Osborne told Dezeen.
“While it’s an indirect connection, it was enough of a connection for me to be very upset about it.”
A spokesperson for DLR Group, which has an established arm for criminal justice design , confirmed its work for Diamondback Correctional Facility, adding that the design work was already completed at the time of the revelation.
Following the employee outcry, DLR Group said it will “not perform work for ICE detainment or deportation facilities” going forward.
DLR “will not perform work for ICE” going forward
After the exposure, DLR Group said it hosted an “open and thoughtful discussion about the role of design in the current justice system”, according to a DLR Group spokesperson.
“Following this dialogue, DLR Group made explicit, firmwide commitments: we will not perform work for ICE detainment or deportation facilities, nor participate in projects that expand facilities owned or operated by private providers with a financial interest in increasing incarceration,” said DLR Group.
DLR Group CEO Steven McKay also reportedly said that the studio would donate the $300,000 in profits from the Oklahoma project, according to Mother Jones.
Under the Trump Administration, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has carried out a much-publicised round of immigration enforcement around the country. The conditions in the facilities have been questioned after reported deaths in ICE custody .
In response to the growing number of arrests , ICE has been quietly buying large, unused, often suburban or rural facilities around the country to convert into detention centres for those in custody.
A PDF detailing ICE’s Detention Reengineering Initiative was sent to the office of New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte , which states the conversion of facilities “to meet the growing demand for bedspace and streamline the detention and removal process, focusing on non-traditional facilities built specifically to support ICE’s needs”.
According to Bloomberg News , companies such as Disaster Management and Amentum have worked with ICE to transform and manage the facilities.
To Osborne, the messaging from the company is unclear.
“Anyone who is in prison design knows that the success of that design relies on the good faith of the people actually operating that facility,” Osborne told Dezeen.
“You can make