This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

I swear to fulfill to the best of my ability and judgment this covenant.

A man must have a code.

No doubt.

The fundamental ethical precept of medicine is that doctors first do no harm.

This led the American Medical Association to adopt opinion 2.06 of the

AMA Code of Medical Ethics in 1992. An individual's opinion of capital punishment is the personal moral decision of that individual.

A physician as a member of a profession dedicated to preserving life when there is hope of doing so should not be a

participant in a legally authorized execution. It goes on from there. Lawyers have

an ethics code. Journalists have an ethics code, so it shouldn't surprise you that architects do as well.

The relevant ethical standard from the AIA that we're discussing is ES.S. 1.4. Human rights. Members should uphold human rights in all their professional endeavors.

A number of architects have taken a stance that there are some buildings that just should not have been built.

And they don't just mean the ugly buildings.

That by design, they violate standards of human rights.

That's our producer Sam Greenspan.

He's talking about prisons.

Specifically, prisons that keep inmates alone in cells with little to do and with minimal

human contact.

Inmates have names for these places, the box or the bing.

On the outside we know them as SuperMax or the shoe.

That's SHU for security housing unit. Now it's up for debate as to whether or not the

shoe is solitary confinement. Reason being, and this is something weird we found while researching the

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